Matthew Cochran
Co-Founder at OutboundLabs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorMatthew Cochran is a seasoned software architect and founder with 25+ years of experience designing cloud-native, high-performance platforms that scale cost-effectively. As a Co-Founder and former CTO/Staff Engineer, he has driven 100x scalability improvements and cut infrastructure spend by 80%+ through serverless, dynamic scaling, and language migrations to Rust and Go. He builds AI-driven systems and optimizes LLM workflows—founding Promptala.com and integrating RAG and fine-tuning to make ML pipelines production-ready. Matthew pairs hands-on engineering (from Python to Rust/Go) with operational excellence—automating CI/CD, disaster recovery to sub-4-hour recovery, and DevOps that boosted release velocity by 300%. He mentors teams to adopt modern architectures and developer tooling, and has a knack for turning costly legacy systems into sub-million-dollar savings while embedding research tools like Jupyter directly into products. Based in New York, he combines startup grit with enterprise-grade delivery across Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, and observability ecosystems.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (49)
api9
rest-api8
gateway8
rest8
backend-for-frontend8
restful-api8
postgresql7
composition7
graphql-api7
golang7
api-gateway7
nextjs7
grpc7
graphql7
microservices6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
TruthShield/Applinate-Demo
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
TruthShield/Applinate.Microservice.Foundation
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:15 commits, 12 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 month
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