Matthew Flaming
Principal Architect at Affinity.co
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolMatthew Flaming is a Principal Architect and seasoned technology leader with 13 years of experience building scalable SaaS systems and empowered engineering teams at the intersection of people, technology, and culture. He has led large-scale infrastructure and data platforms—driving migrations to cloud-first architectures and systems that processed trillions of data points per minute—while delivering ML-powered products for energy efficiency and fintech. His background spans startups to scale-ups, from architecting IoT and CDN platforms to running global engineering orgs focused on reliability, velocity, and operational maturity. Equally comfortable in the code and the boardroom, he pairs hands-on technical depth across Java, Python, Kubernetes, AWS, and Kafka with storytelling and people-first leadership. Based in Portland, he brings a rare mix of creative writing training and engineering rigor, often translating complex technical strategy into compelling narratives that drive cross-functional buy-in.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MFA Creative Writing, MFA Creative Writing at New York UniversityBachelor's of Liberal Arts Philosophy & Computer Science, Bachelor's of Liberal Arts Philosophy & Computer Science at Hampshire CollegeGithub contributions (5)
temboo/php-examples
Mar 2013 - Aug 2013
Contributions:6 commits in 4 months
matthewflaming/temboo-experiments
Feb 2013 - Feb 2013
Contributions:8 commits in 14 days
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.