Matthew Plough
Staff Software Engineer at KoBold Metals
Ilchester, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Plough is a Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building safety-critical and cloud-integrated systems across unmanned air and marine vehicles, network security, and embedded control systems. He combines hands-on firmware and autopilot development for military and commercial platforms with cloud-native tooling and performance optimization, having driven multi-× speedups in production data pipelines and scoring engines. As a co-founder he took an autonomy startup from pre-revenue to substantial funding and first-year sales, and at Nuna he led a $3M Medicaid modernization while coaching engineers through regular Python trainings. His background includes DO-178B Level A testing for helicopter flight controls and patented control systems for USVs, showing deep expertise in certification, testing, and operator-focused system integration. Based in Maryland and working remotely for KoBold Metals, he blends entrepreneurial product instincts with disciplined engineering practices that yield reproducible, scalable systems.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBSE, Electrical Engineering, BSE, Electrical Engineering at Princeton University
Github Skills (57)
libgit210
quicksilver10
dotnet10
jellyfin10
version-control10
csharp10
qgis9
tms9
wps9
testing9
r9
geotools9
openstreetmap9
unit-testing9
macvim9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
mplough/borescope_stream
Dec 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:11 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
mplough/mplough.github.io
May 2018 - Jan 2025
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Contributions:51 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 9 months
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