Summary
Matthew Moore is a multidisciplinary engineering leader with 11+ years of experience bridging optical systems, software, and data engineering, currently serving as Supervising Information Systems Analyst for the City of Spokane. He brings deep hands-on expertise in optical design and large laser systems—Zemax/OSLO, thin-film filters, beamline alignment—and pairs that with production software skills in Python, C++, BASH, SQL and EPICS to take complex projects from concept through deployment. Matthew has led and scaled teams and facilities—managing a 25-person opto-mechanical group and multi-million dollar budgets at the University of Rochester—while also architecting data lakes, ETLs, and reporting systems for analytics-driven decision making. His background uniquely enables him to translate between experimental physics needs and robust software/IT solutions, having automated detector and beamline control systems and unified disparate instruments into maintainable platforms. Currently available for contract optical and software engineering, he combines rigorous scientific training (MS in Optics) with practical municipal systems architecture experience. An uncommon strength is his ability to spot subsystem-level flaws early—once saving a major laser program by identifying a fundamental design issue—and then drive rapid, pragmatic remediation.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Optics, MS, Optics at University of Rochester
BA, Physics, BA, Physics at Connecticut College
High School, High School at Brunswick High School