Matt Roman
Chief Technology Officer at Techstars
Town of Islip, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Roman is a seasoned technology executive and CTO with over two decades of experience building and scaling product-led engineering organizations, currently leading technology at KWI and mentoring founders through Techstars. He has a proven track record transforming companies—scaling teams from single digits to 70+ engineers, driving DevOps and data strategies that moved deploy cadence from monthly to multiple daily releases, and applying AI to materially boost business metrics in real estate appraisal. Comfortable in both startup and enterprise environments, he has led complex post-acquisition migrations and sustained low attrition through transformational, people-first leadership. An active back-end contributor, he’s enhanced notable open-source tooling for Mongoose-powered APIs, showing hands-on expertise alongside executive strategy. Based in Long Island, he blends product intuition, operational rigor, and a knack for pragmatic architecture that minimizes disruption while accelerating growth.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at State University of New York at Plattsburgh
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Github Skills (20)
mongoose10
javascript10
expressjs10
apidoc10
mongodb-database10
api10
filter10
filtering10
nodejs10
mongodb10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
rest-api9
elasticsearch6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
florianholzapfel/express-restify-mongoose
Nov 2013 - Jan 2014
Easily restify mongoose databases
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 comment in 2 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to enhancing the `express-restify-mongoose` library, focusing on improving its functionality and addressing specific issues. Their work included making the `lean` option for mongoose queries optional, enabling the return of virtuals in read requests. They also addressed and fixed exclude fields on populate operations. Furthermore, they added nested selects for populated fields, and improved the filtering functionality.
restifymongomongoosejsdatabasesnodejs
gigwell/supergoose
Jun 2012 - Feb 2016
Contributions:28 commits, 1 push, 3 comments in 3 years 7 months
add-onsnodejsmongooseonsmongodb
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