Summary
Matthew Janes is a Senior Engineering Manager in Portland with 12 years of hands-on and leadership experience building resilient mobile and backend platforms for construction and field applications. At Autodesk he leads the Frameworks Group, shaping mobile sync architecture, a cross-product design system, and Python developer tooling that underpin Autodesk Construction Cloud and PlanGrid. He started as an Android engineer tackling low-connectivity, large-dataset problems and evolved into a principal engineer who helped demonolith PlanGrid into service-oriented backends using Python, Flask, Istio, and Spinnaker. Known for pragmatically bridging mobile, backend, and developer experience concerns, he combines deep systems-level troubleshooting with product-minded leadership and a Stanford Symbolic Systems background that informs a human-centered approach to developer tooling.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Symbolic Systems: Human Computer Interaction, Bachelor of Science Symbolic Systems: Human Computer Interaction at Stanford University