Matthew Peters
Senior Software Engineer at Starbucks
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Peters is a senior software engineer and pragmatic technical leader with 11+ years of experience building cloud-native and hybrid systems, currently based in Seattle. He architected and led teams to deliver high-throughput integration solutions—most notably integrating on-premises telephony with a conversational intelligence cloud platform that supported 3,500 users and generated $2.8M in invoicing over two years. Comfortable across Go, Python, AWS/GCP/Azure, Databricks and RDBMS, he blends hands-on coding with architecture, devops, and data engineering to ship reliable production systems. A former principal engineer at Avaya, he has a track record of rescuing and extending legacy products, driving measurable performance gains (97–99% query improvements) and operationalizing event-heavy pipelines. He holds an MS in Information Management (Data Science/Information Architecture) from UW and brings a strengths-based leadership style that emphasizes ownership, transparency, and team empowerment.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BA Architectural Studies, BA Architectural Studies at University of WashingtonHumanities - Honors Program, Humanities - Honors Program at Seattle UniversityMS Information Management Data Science and Information Architecture, MS Information Management Data Science and Information Architecture at University of Washington Information School
English
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Github Skills (49)
driver10
adapter9
database8
python8
ansible8
postgresql-database8
postgresql7
ssh7
optimization6
automation6
dplyr6
sql6
devops6
upstream6
docker-image6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
matthewapeters/dali
Nov 2020 - Mar 2021
Idiomatic Golang GUI using Lorca
Contributions:111 commits, 2 PRs, 135 pushes in 3 months
golangidiomaticlorcagui
matthewapeters/newsies
Feb 2025 - Apr 2025
Contributions:107 pushes in 1 month
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