Summary
Matthew Sahagian is a founder and seasoned technical architect with 15+ years building robust web platforms, data models, and server architectures from the ground up. Based in San Jose, he blends deep back-end expertise in PHP, SQL, and domain modeling with hands-on operations experience running AWS/EC2 infrastructures that have supported dozens of sites and applications. He has led engineering and architecture at organizations like Imarc and Jobs for the Future, and now directs product and technical strategy at his startup, Primd. Known for marrying pragmatic engineering practices with modern toolchains (Doctrine, Laravel, webpack, ES6), he equally enjoys low-level server work and high-level system design. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex business requirements into clean APIs and maintainable data models while keeping systems reliably deployed at scale.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Computer Information Systems, 3.37, Associate's degree, Computer Information Systems, 3.37 at New England Institute of Technology