Matthew Fonda
Senior Software Engineer at Coursera
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Fonda is a senior software engineer with 15+ years building and scaling high-traffic web platforms, currently contributing at Coursera after a decade-plus tenure as Principal Engineer and CTO at eNotes. He combines hands-on engineering with team leadership and mentoring, favoring simple, maintainable codebases and pragmatic solutions that recognize "it depends." In recent years he has focused on AI-driven educational tools, integrating LLMs across user-facing products, data analysis, semantic search, and agentic workflows. His background in computational and applied mathematics informs a measured approach to trade-offs and system design. Based in Seattle, he seeks roles where he can both ship production-quality systems and grow engineering teams. A detail that sets him apart: he’s turned long-term curiosity about AI into measurable classroom impact through production LLM integrations using RAG, embeddings, and prompt engineering.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computational and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Computational and Applied Mathematics at University of Washington
Github Skills (39)
simhash10
sqlite-extension9
php9
composer9
bundle8
dependency-manager7
symfony7
symfony-bundle7
package-manager7
golang6
sqlite6
conversations5
php-framework5
github-app5
reflection4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mfonda/simhash
Dec 2013 - Oct 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 9 months
golangsimhash
mfonda/lockbot
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 3 branches in 5 days
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