Natalie Matthews
Senior Backend Engineer at Harvard University
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNatalie Matthews is a Senior Backend Engineer with nine years of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems and AI-driven product features across EdTech, FinTech, Travel, and SaaS automation. She has a strong track record shipping production services at startups and enterprises—most recently driving the Custom Actions platform at Zapier (including OpenAI-driven assist features and a RAG-powered conversational builder) and currently contributing to backend systems at Clubhouse. Comfortable across the stack, Natalie designs serverless pipelines, multi-region failover architectures, and data-informed products using Python, Django, Postgres, AWS, and modern frontend tools. A dedicated teacher and mentor, she concurrently serves on the CS61 teaching staff at Harvard, bringing classroom-tested clarity to complex systems like kernel-level programming and concurrency. Notably, she built the Zoom Ingester Pipeline at Harvard that automates video processing for courses generating over $10M in tuition and has led integration of embedding search and tool-calling to make developer experiences more conversational and productive.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Special Student (independent coursework), Special Student (independent coursework) at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied SciencesMaster of Liberal Arts Software Engineering, Master of Liberal Arts Software Engineering at Harvard Extension SchoolBA Urban Geography, BA Urban Geography at McGill University
Github Skills (39)
aws-services10
zoom-meeting10
selenium9
dotnet9
java9
capstone9
rust8
python8
sdk8
aws8
browser8
aws-lambda8
ruby8
aws-sdk8
javascript8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nataliemona/nataliemona.github.io
Apr 2017 - Mar 2022
Contributions:58 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
ClinicalTrialsTeam/ctfrontier
Mar 2021 - May 2021
Harvard Extension School CSCI E-599 Capstone Project
Contributions:110 reviews, 127 commits, 82 PRs in 2 months
javacapstonecsciharvard
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