Matthew Sessions
Hardware Software Engineer C React Firebase Startup Embedded at Freelance
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Sessions is a hardware-focused software engineer based in Portland, Oregon, with eight years of hands-on experience delivering embedded and backend solutions across startups, research labs, and manufacturing. He specializes in C/C++ and real-time systems, having reduced off-hours alerts by 80% and cut equipment downtime by 70% at Arconic through code fixes, tooling, and data-driven visualizations. Comfortable across the stack, he builds prototypes with microcontrollers, React frontends, and Firebase real-time messaging—skills he applied as principal engineer on an MVP for an early-stage startup. His background in multidisciplinary research teams taught him to bridge electronics, firmware, and user-facing software, and he values pragmatic upgrades to legacy open-source systems including kernel and library fixes. Known for process optimization and stabilizing live systems, he brings a steady, systems-level mindset to product and reliability challenges. Reachable at sessions.matthew.j@gmail.com, he is actively growing his professional network and taking on new embedded-software opportunities.
8 years of coding experience
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Oregon State University
Github Skills (57)
bluetooth-low-energy10
platformio9
esp82669
gitlist9
bluetooth9
yaml9
android9
esphome9
esp329
home-automation8
python8
viewer8
iot8
ios8
adafruit8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
sessions-matthew/sessions-matthew.github.io
Jan 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
OSU-CS290-Sp18/final-project-group-4
May 2018 - Jun 2018
CS290 Final Project
Contributions:29 pushes, 7 branches in 1 month
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