Matthew Pladna
Staff Engineer II at Flashpoint
Catonsville, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Pladna is a Staff Engineer II with 11 years of experience building scalable search and data platforms, currently leading search API and WebSocket initiatives at Flashpoint. He combines deep hands-on skills in Python, Elasticsearch, Bigtable/BigQuery, and Kubernetes with a history of managing and mentoring cross-functional teams in cyber threat intelligence and BI contexts. Matthew has repeatedly delivered high-performance, cost-conscious infrastructure improvements and engineered responsive search experiences across vast datasets. His background spans data flow tools (Spark, Kafka), diverse datastores (Postgres, Neo4j, Redis), and cloud-native deployments on GCP, reflecting a pragmatic full-stack data engineering focus. Outside work he continually experiments with new tech through personal projects and code katas, demonstrating a habit of learning-by-building that drives practical innovation.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BA (Cum Laude) Philosophy, BA (Cum Laude) Philosophy at Elon University
Stackoverflow
11reputation
179reached
2answers
2questions
Github Skills (25)
data-files10
dm10
seeding10
mud9
database8
packaging8
key-value7
visualizations7
dependency-management7
dependency-manager7
python7
embedded7
package-manager7
elasticsearch6
elastic6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pladdy/stones
Mar 2018 - Oct 2019
STIX and stones can break my bones but validation will never hurt me.
Contributions:19 PRs, 32 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 7 months
stixvalidationneverbreakbones
pladdy/jsonschema-scratch
May 2020 - Mar 2025
A python flask project for learning jsonschema
Contributions:5 PRs, 38 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 10 months
python-flaskflaskpythonjsonschema
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