Summary
Matthew Hwang is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 12 years of full-stack experience building scalable systems across Go, Python, React/TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and Elasticsearch. He has led teams from 0 to 1—shipping microservices, custom rule engines, and observability improvements that reduced time-to-value for thousands of SMB users and set standards used by 100+ engineers. Comfortable across architecture and hands-on implementation, he often bridges product, UX, and engineering to scope impactful features and deliver them on time. Matthew is an avid documentation writer and mentor who reduces knowledge silos and accelerates team ramp-up through clear guidelines and developer experience initiatives. His background in biomedical engineering and early research informaticist work gives him a strong data-and-integrations mindset useful for complex ETL and analytics challenges. Always learning new technologies, he thrives on projects that combine high-level design with practical, production-ready code.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree BS Biomedical Engineering Minor in Biomedical Physics, Bachelor's Degree BS Biomedical Engineering Minor in Biomedical Physics at Washington University in St. Louis