Matt Pestritto
CTO at Realize Consulting Services
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Pestritto is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 12+ years of experience translating business needs into reliable engineering solutions and scalable teams. He has a strong hands-on background across Ruby on Rails, Python, SQL, Linux, and cloud-native tooling (AWS, Terraform, EKS, Helm) and has repeatedly operated as the sole or early engineering lead to prototype systems that unlocked rapid growth. As CTO of Parachute Health and former early-stage CTO at Plated, he built internal platforms and squads that enabled dramatic operational scale and measurable business impact. He also runs a technical consulting practice advising startups on architecture, devops, data management, and team/process building, blending practitioner-level coding with executive leadership. Known for hiring, mentoring, and establishing repeatable engineering processes, he pairs pragmatic problem-solving with a bias for shipping. Based in New York, he combines enterprise data/ETL experience with modern cloud ops—comfortable moving between low-level shell/C work and high-level platform strategy.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at Lehigh University
Github Skills (91)
procfile9
django8
api8
rest8
rest-api8
openapi8
docker-container8
swagger8
low-level8
amazon-ec28
monitor8
monitoring7
swagger-ui7
python7
cli7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
parachutehealth/pagerduty-oncall-bot
Oct 2020 - Jul 2022
Go script to check who is on call on Pagerduty and runs it on aws lambda
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 1 year 9 months
on-callpagerdutybotoserverlessaws-lambda
mpestritto/ETHNewYork2019
May 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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