Summary
Matthew Burkhard is a technical director and cloud platform leader with over a decade of engineering leadership experience building IoT, wellness, and applied AI platforms. He has a strong track record of taking embedded products from firmware through secure cloud ingestion to ML-driven features—most notably delivering a patented real-time temperature adjustment system and scalable secure provisioning for mass device manufacturing. Comfortable both leading teams and diving into architecture, he has managed cross-functional platform, firmware, and mobile groups while instituting observability-first, CI/CD, and security best practices that passed AWS Well-Architected review. Based in Charlotte, NC, he combines hands-on firmware experience (ESP32) with cloud-native design and a pragmatic eye for production readiness and manufacturability. An early career background in AVL systems and study-abroad experience in Japan hint at a blend of systems thinking and international collaboration that informs his product-focused engineering leadership.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at Clemson University
Study Abroad Computer Science / Japanese, Study Abroad Computer Science / Japanese at University of Fukui