Summary
Matthew Batema is a Principal Engineer with 15 years of experience designing and building distributed, scalable systems from startup to enterprise. Based in San Carlos, CA, he has deep backend expertise demonstrated through roles at Vynca, Apixio, Sensity/Verizon and security-focused work at Cenzic/Trustwave, often working with Erlang, Clojure and cloud-native architectures for IoT and data-heavy platforms. He combines an engineer’s attention to system behavior with a designer’s sensibility—“design systems, build them by listening to them”—to ship resilient production services. Matthew’s background includes several successful acquisitions, reflecting his strength in building acquisition-ready products and teams. He also brings long-term operational experience running Linux server clusters and automated infrastructure dating back to early-career sysadmin roles.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of California, Davis
Computer Science, Computer Science at College of San Mateo
English