Summary
Matthew Petty is a Principal Software Engineer with more than 20 years of experience building enterprise applications across defense, logistics, healthcare, HR, and library systems. He specializes in application architecture, test-driven development, refactoring to patterns, domain-driven design, and agile delivery, and has repeatedly led migrations from monoliths to microservice architectures. Matthew blends full-stack hands-on coding with systems thinking—designing deployable architectures that run on cloud and embedded platforms, and has implemented mission-critical C2, payroll/billing, and pharmacogenetics solutions. Comfortable across Java, Node, PHP, Android, and modern front-end stacks, he routinely drives both core platform work and custom integrations. Based in Alabama, he brings a pragmatic focus on maintainability and observable systems, often surfacing architectural debt into actionable refactors. Not obvious from titles: he has deep experience tailoring deployments for mixed environments (cloud, on-premise, embedded) and shipping durable solutions in regulated and operationally sensitive domains.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville
English