Matt Holford
Senior Consulting Engineer at MongoDB
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Holford is a Senior Consulting Engineer in Portland with a PhD in Computational Biology and nine years of professional engineering experience building scalable data systems and search solutions. He advises enterprise customers on database architecture and performance—most recently at MongoDB—where he designed rule-driven analysis frameworks and highly concurrent validation systems for large migrations. Previously he implemented internet-scale graph solutions at Neo4j (including an award-winning patient-journey application) and built production NLP, search, and speech-driven interfaces tied to massive knowledge bases. Comfortable across databases, multi-threaded Java, and data pipelines, he blends deep research training with pragmatic, production-focused engineering. An unusual combination of music-theory BA and computational-biology doctorate hints at a pattern-focused thinker who translates complex domains into reliable, automatable systems.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Biology at Yale UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Music History and Theory, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Music History and Theory at Oberlin College
Github Skills (10)
document-processing9
pipeline6
search-engine5
elasticsearch4
etl3
logstash1
aws1
dynamodb1
chatbot1
stream1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mholford/mutadelic
Mar 2017 - Jul 2019
The application described in my PhD dissertation (2014)
Contributions:1 push in 2 years 4 months
phd
mholford/chatlantis
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
A framework for designing chatbots
Contributions:4 PRs, 7 pushes, 5 branches in 3 days
chatbotbotchatbots
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