Summary
Matthew Mellor is a medical student with a decade of diverse engineering and education experience, transitioning from MIT-trained mechanical engineer to STEM teacher and now into medicine. He has founded and led small ventures, built firmware and apps in undergraduate research, and applied LEAN manufacturing on defense aerospace programs, demonstrating a practical bias for design, process improvement, and hands-on problem solving. In clinical-adjacent roles at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia he supported oncology care teams, pairing technical rigor with patient-facing coordination. His background in teaching across middle school and high school adds clear communication and mentorship strengths that complement his technical fluency. Based in Lodi, California, he brings an unusual blend of engineering, entrepreneurship, and classroom experience to clinical training, often bridging systems thinking and human-centered care.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.9/5.0, Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, 3.9/5.0 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology