Matt Kimmel
Senior Back End Platform Engineer
Arlington, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Kimmel is a Senior Back End Platform Engineer with 18 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across startups and enterprise environments. He has a proven track record of scaling subscription platforms from 100K to nearly 2M users, automating fulfillment workflows, and optimizing logistics and personalization algorithms to cut costs and improve performance. Early in his career he co-invented a patented volumetric navigation system used by Amazon Robotics, demonstrating deep expertise in real-time systems and pathfinding. Comfortable both leading architecture and shipping hands-on code, he has worked across languages and domains—from game engines and virtual worlds to high-traffic e-commerce backends. Based in Arlington, MA, he stays current with AI/ML trends and pursues certifications to deepen his technical breadth, and outside work he channels creativity into music, theater, and tabletop gaming.
18 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Coursework in Computer Science, Coursework in Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (60)
z-machine10
coingecko10
a-z10
binary-search9
padding9
decorators9
rgb8
kucoin8
exchange8
ruby8
coinbase8
rubygems7
java7
bitmex7
usb7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mattkimmel/zax
Dec 2007 - Jan 2019
A Z-Machine emulator (used to play Infocom and modern interactive fiction) written in Java.
Contributions:18 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 11 years 2 months
emulatora-zz-machineinteractive-fictionjava
wetjacket/madamruby
Mar 2017 - Oct 2022
Contributions:7 pushes in 5 years 8 months
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