Matt Towers
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorMatt Towers is a Principal Software Engineer based in Seattle with two decades of experience architecting high-scale distributed systems and content delivery platforms. He has led teams and built microservices architectures that handled hundreds of thousands of requests per minute and integrated 50+ streaming partners, blending cloud-native design (GCP) with practical operational rigor. At Sonos and Backbone he drove partner integrations, content discovery, and AI-powered recommendation systems while mentoring engineering teams and establishing best practices. His career includes designing real-time event processing that handled 100M+ daily events and even a cloud interface deployed to the International Space Station, showing a taste for high-stakes engineering. He brings an uncommon dual background: deep technical leadership combined with 25 years of emergency response experience, informing robust on-call operations and disaster recovery planning. Matt pairs pragmatic system design with a talent for cross-functional collaboration to deliver resilient, production-ready services at scale.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (50)
rails-semantic-logger9
plugin9
bugsnag9
driver9
eslint-plugin8
splunk8
tslint8
syslog8
background-processing7
eslint7
rabbitmq7
lua7
mongodb7
logging7
monorepo6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mtowers/stream-ruby
Aug 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 6 months
ruby-clientrubyactivity-streamstream
mtowers/approach_control
Jul 2016 - Feb 2023
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Contributions:2 PRs, 20 pushes, 5 branches in 6 years 8 months
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