Matt Raffel
USA, United States
Summary
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SeniorMatt Raffel is a Principal Engineer with two decades of hands-on and leadership experience building mission-critical systems, currently architecting banking and identity solutions at Kiva. He combines greenfield development and legacy modernization expertise across languages such as Rust, C#, C++, and TypeScript, and designs microservices and cloud-native architectures deployed on AWS and Kubernetes. As a software architect and team lead he routinely guides cross-functional teams from concept through delivery, translating product goals into scalable, testable implementations and mentoring engineers. His work on decentralized identity, verifiable credentials, and Hyperledger Indy — including co-chairing the AnonCredentials W3C group — highlights a niche focus on privacy-preserving financial systems. Beyond enterprise software, he ships indie games with Unity as a one-person studio lead, demonstrating a creative, product-minded approach to engineering. Based in the Denver area, he blends strategic thinking with daily hands-on coding and rigorous TDD practices.
10 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
1,187reputation
228kreached
15answers
37questions
Github Skills (93)
identity-framework10
docker-desktop9
azure-storage9
tilt9
ssi8
crowd8
docker-container8
identity8
conversations8
blockchain8
typescript8
csharp8
aries7
ledger7
dotnet7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tatmanblue/Cogitatio
Jan 2025 - Jul 2026
Cogitatio CMS is a lightweight blog engine built using .NET blazor tech stack
Contributions:1 release, 3 PRs, 52 pushes in 1 year 6 months
asp-net-coreblog-enginebloggingcmscsharp
tatmanblue/F500-GE
Jul 2021 - Feb 2024
Game rules engine for Fortune 500 board game
Contributions:2 PRs, 34 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
fortune-500gamegame-developmentfortunerules
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