Matt Pope
General Manager & Director Of Product Management, Amazon Connect at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Pope is a seasoned product and general management leader with over two decades of experience building and scaling consumer and enterprise communication products, currently serving as General Manager & Director of Product Management for Amazon Connect at AWS. He has led core product and UX teams at Skype and Microsoft, co-founded startups including Talko (acquired by Microsoft), and repeatedly translated technical platforms into market-ready offerings. Comfortable at the intersection of product, engineering, and go-to-market, he pairs an MBA and engineering background with hands-on contributions to open-source tooling—such as improvements to the amazon-ion Java parser—highlighting a rare blend of strategic leadership and implementation fluency. Based in Seattle, he is known for turning complex collaboration and telephony scenarios into compelling product experiences and commercially successful platforms.
6 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Mechanical Engineering, BSc, Mechanical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteMBA, Business, MBA, Business at The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Github Skills (10)
javas10
data-serialization10
java10
serialization10
json9
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
data-structure8
testing7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
amazon-ion/ion-java
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Java streaming parser/serializer for Ion.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 331 reviews, 24 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to improving the Java implementation for Amazon Ion, a data serialization format. Their work included implementing new features to configure text writing, specifically around newlines and top-level value formatting. They also addressed bugs related to handling of NaN and +/-Inf values during JSON downconversion and fixed an issue in the binary reader regarding illegal IVM positioning. Further contributions included adding members to the `IonNumber` interface and making `IonDecimal`, `IonFloat`, and `IonInt` implement `IonNumber`.
streaming-parserstreamingionserializerparser
popematt/ion-schema
Jun 2021 - May 2024
The Ion Schema Specification. This specification is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.
Contributions:113 pushes, 22 branches in 2 years 11 months
licensedspecificationapacheionlicense
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