Matt Scruggs
Senior Software Engineer at KoBold Metals
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Scruggs is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building highly available, scalable services, APIs, UIs and ML-enabled systems from prototype to production. Currently at KoBold Metals after leading backend and ML-integrated data engineering efforts at Onna and Agari, he blends strong backend architecture with hands-on model deployment on Kubernetes and AWS. He has a track record of turning data science work into reliable automation—authoring deployment standards, delivering training, and shipping RESTful ML prediction services. Earlier roles include recommender-system design at Oracle Bronto and scientific software for RTI, reflecting a breadth across enterprise, research, and product-focused engineering. Based in Durham, NC, he’s comfortable as both a squad lead and an individual contributor who fosters cross-functional learning and practical ML adoption. A background in environmental science gives him an uncommon systems perspective on real-world data and operational reliability.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Environmental Science, BS, Environmental Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English
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Github Skills (62)
validation10
pythonic10
parsing10
json-schema9
python9
parser9
amazon-textract9
pydantic8
version-control8
developer-tools8
data-models8
unstructured-data8
machine-learning8
textract8
data-parsing8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
infiniaml/ml-bootcamp
Oct 2018 - Feb 2019
Repository for participants in the Infinia ML Machine Learning Bootcamp for Software Engineers
Contributions:4 commits, 21 pushes, 3 comments in 3 months
pythondata-sciencemachine-learningparticipantsfeature-store
mdscruggs/amazon-textract-textractor
Jan 2024 - Jan 2024
Analyze documents with Amazon Textract and generate output in multiple formats.
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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