Matthew Gifford
Software Engineering Manager at Wärtsilä North America, Inc.
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Gifford is a director and seasoned software engineer with nine years of experience building data-intensive IoT systems and leading engineering teams. He has progressed from hands-on full-stack work—bootstrapping React UIs and coding Node.js services—to scaling platform architectures that ingest and serve high-volume sensor data on Kubernetes. At Leverege he led teams delivering real-time asset tracking for Fortune 500 clients and built reusable UI libraries and protocol-transducing servers across MQTT, UDP, REST and Pub/Sub. Now based in Washington, D.C., he continues to blend technical leadership with product-facing delivery at Wärtsilä, guiding engineering strategy and execution. His background in philosophy and instructional design surfaces in clear documentation, thoughtful systems thinking, and an emphasis on making complex technical products accessible to stakeholders. Colleagues describe him as relentless about learning and pragmatic about shipping dependable, scalable solutions.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Philosophy at University of Massachusetts AmherstBachelor of Arts - BA Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts - BA Philosophy at University of Maryland
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Github Skills (61)
maps9
tiles9
esp82669
npm-package9
static-site9
arduino9
esp328
queue8
react8
3d8
google-cloud8
vector-tiles8
vector8
gcp8
geojson8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Leverege/deprecated-microchip-avr-iot
Jul 2018 - Aug 2022
DEPRECATED - Setup guide for AVR-IoT board
Contributions:111 commits, 9 PRs, 103 pushes in 4 years 1 month
avrsetup-guideesp8266mqttarduino
Leverege/deprecated-microchip-pic-iot
Jan 2019 - Aug 2022
DEPRECATED Deploy cloud functions and UI for PIC-IoT board on your own Google Cloud Project
Contributions:32 commits, 6 PRs, 23 pushes in 3 years 7 months
gcppic-iot-boardgoogle-cloud-platformcloud-functionscloud
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