Full-stack staff engineer with 20+ years shipping software. Pragmatic problem-solver who thrives in collaborative environments with strong engineers where I can contribute meaningfully while continuously learning. Passionate about clean architecture, testable code, and mentoring while being mentored.
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Recommendations from colleagues I've had the pleasure of working with.
“I had the privilege of collaborating with Matt on a hackathon project and I am consistently impressed by his skill in effectively leading a team through a complex project. He not only manages to guide and mentor others, but also takes the time to teach and build his co-workers up. I've mentioned it before, but working with Matt has truly enhanced my engineering abilities, and I'm confident that others would say the same!”
Colleague at Paylocity
“Thank you for your exceptional detective work regarding the recent SFTP issue that affected our high-profile client, Adovcare! Your ability to identify the root cause of the problem is invaluable and will aid in the discussions that our Implementation Project Partners will be conducting. Thanks again!”
Colleague at Paylocity
“I worked with Matt on a story to enable CARBON to use snowflake which involved (long story short) recycling some connection strings and updating a bunch of variables in octopus. Unfortunately, there was a small misconfiguration that would prevent reporting users from running PDP derived reports. HOWEVER, because Matt proactively monitored the release of this change, he observed the misconfiguration, called a MIN to resolve the issue, and as a result there was MINIMAL impact to users. Thank you Matt for your dedication and forward thinking which helped to avert a larger impact to our users.”
Colleague at Paylocity
“Thank you all for your prompt attention and effective resolution regarding PDR-057419. I truly appreciate the effort and dedication each of you has put into getting this resolved so quickly. Your hard work and commitment to excellence do not go unnoticed, and I cannot express enough gratitude for all that you do! #Calvin&Hobbesrocks”
Colleague at Paylocity
“Matt, I would like to express my gratitude for your exceptional contributions this quarter. Your efforts in supporting the SSRS migration and completing the backend work on the Additional Filter Operators were truly outstanding. Additionally, your assistance in establishing development standards for React within the Reporting team was invaluable. I would also like to acknowledge your support in Engagement projects, particularly Code Groups, where your insightful ideas greatly enhanced the Reporting Experience. Thank you for your remarkable work and the significant impact you made on the Reporting teams this quarter.”
Director at Paylocity
“Thanks for taking time at the end of the day to share knowledge around Report List and Pickup API calls and flow of dependent calls and impact to help us work with another team to problem solve a current issue. Your knowledge is a great as your willingness to always help!!!”
Engineering Manager at Paylocity
“Thank you for helping queue the Scheduled Reports that failed to run due to the Crowd Strike issue this morning. You saved the PI Support team many hours of manual effort we otherwise would have had to resort to for our clients. Thank you!”
Colleague at Paylocity
“Thank you so much for your help on the report for headcount planning! We appreciate your help and so will our clients!”
Colleague at Paylocity
“Thank you for the amazing feedback and time that you've given me on the security changes we are making! It has been truly invaluable. You've caught several things for me and also have made super valuable suggestions that are making the code more readable, maintainable, and just overall better. It is awesome to have you three on my team and to know I can rely on great feedback and review from all of you. Thank you again.”
Colleague at Paylocity
“Thank you all for your help in crafting and executing our interview loop for our recent backfill. You all were flexible, professional and insightful in your interviews with candidates and helped refine our process as we saw areas to improve. Thank you for all your work on this.”
Engineering Manager at Paylocity
“Dear Matt, I am pleased to extend my sincere congratulations on the successful migration of Reporting to Snowflake. Your unwavering focus on the project goal, persistence in raising and following up issues, and proactive communication have been instrumental in making this project a resounding success. I would like to express my gratitude for your invaluable contributions and for executing the project with utmost professionalism. Thank you once again for your outstanding work. Best regards, Rene”
Director at Paylocity
“Great Job on the execution of your project during the Hackathon. The video presentation was incredibly informative and it showed how much you accomplished in the time allotted. I am very confident this will inspire discussion around this feature in our product. I am happy to hear how much fun you had and the learnings by participating in this opportunity. Thanks for signing up and investing in yourselves and the future of our company!!!”
Engineering Manager at Paylocity
“Thanks so much for all the hard work, test planning, and swarm testing. We collaborated all week fixing what we found, and completed a second round the same week. This has enabled us to move the Reporting API .Net 6 work to DrProd for Load Testing on Monday. Your teamwork made this all possible - It is a pleasure to see you all Be Unbeatable Together!!!”
Engineering Manager at Paylocity
“Thank you so much for your partnership on the Headcount Planning Import report that you created for us! It will make a big impact for our clients. I know you are busy and I appreciate that you took time to work on this for us!”
Colleague at Paylocity
“Thank you all for your participation in our H2 estimations! Your input and feedback are hugely appreciated. We are grateful for your commitment to helping us make informed decisions.”
Colleague at Paylocity
“Great work narrowing down the Morgan Report issue today. I appreciate how willing people are to jump in and help one another.”
Colleague at Paylocity
“🎉 Team Shoutout 🙌 Big shoutout to the Reporting, Data Insights, and partnering teams for coming together to figure out what’s best for our users as we continue to evolve our products! Your collaboration, adaptability, and drive are making a huge impact. 💪 We see you aligning, scoping, managing, advocating, designing, prototyping, developing, and pushing forward these critical initiatives — and we couldn’t appreciate it more! 🚀”
Colleague at Paylocity
“Hi Matt, Thank you for conducting the AG GRID proof of concept. I appreciate your effort in recording a demonstration of your findings, and I was impressed by the level of detail you included on the wiki page. This will enable your colleagues to benefit from your insights. By sharing your knowledge, you will help your peers save time, allowing them to quickly acclimate and concentrate on further areas of learning. Thank you.”
Director at Paylocity
“Thank you for jumping in and helping us with our Datadog metrics implementation even though it wasn't necessarily your responsibility. We were able to meet our goal with your help.”
Colleague at Paylocity
“Congratulations on winning the P&T FY25 Q4 Rewards & Recognition Excellence in Action Award. Thank you for your contributions and continuous strive for excellence!! Congratulations!”
Colleague at Paylocity
“Thank you all for taking our request for a Headcount Planning Import report and making it happen so quickly. I used it yesterday with a client and it was exactly what they needed it to be. This is a HUGE time saver for us and will really streamline the process of creating the budget upload templates.”
Colleague at Paylocity
“Thank you for partnering with Adrian to navigate the Snowflake cutover. There were multiple options and you help find the best one for both parties. I appreciate how you have take the lead to organize and plan all the different PDP Engagement cutovers and have done a great job communicating progress and ensuring the lead engineer of other engagements is aware of the plan. Thanks for all you do!!!”
Engineering Manager at Paylocity
“Matt is an exceptional teammate. He took on additional support responsibilities for me during my on-call week, understanding that I was occupied with other support issues. This gesture is greatly appreciated and exemplifies why I value being part of this team. Thank you, Matt, for all that you do and for contributing to making Paylocity a wonderful place to work.”
Colleague at Paylocity
“I want to call out two instances of Matt making our team better. First he has offered his guidance and insight to both myself and an engineer on our team on how our monitoring of the reporting app works and why certain decisions were made. But he also has encouraged others to be a part of helping to form an updated version of our monitoring vision for our product and truly embody collaboration and empowerment of others. Secondly, after a recent meeting where I asked questions that demonstrated I didn't understand some of our more complicated security patterns, Matt proactively reached out to me and setup an early morning meeting to walk me through parts of our security to help me understand better so that I could contribute more in the future. I really appreciated his proactive approach to helping me when he saw an opportunity to teach me something. Thank you and great work!”
Engineering Manager at Paylocity
“Thank you - Both Reporting teams have achieved 100% participation in the Employee Voice survey. Your input and feedback are essential in helping us maintain Paylocity as an excellent workplace and in identifying areas for improvement. Managers have not yet received the Employee Voice survey results, but Ben and I sincerely appreciate everyone taking the time to complete the survey!”
Engineering Manager at Paylocity
“Matt thanks for being a sounding board, a great collaborator, and ideas while working on PDF export feature. Teamwork like this makes Paylocity the best place to work! Thanks again Matt.”
Colleague at Paylocity
“Thank you for your assistance today in addressing the issue of the schedules not running for Co2000. I greatly appreciate your meticulous attention to detail, prompt action, and, most importantly, your follow through to work to establish measures to ensure timely alerts in the event of a recurrence. Your dedication to upholding our shared values of collaboration and excellence is truly commendable.”
Engineering Manager at Paylocity
“Matt, I appreciate your willingness to partner with the Data Engineering team, provide guidance/leadership and always doing it with a gracious and generous attitude. Thanks for all you do to help keep DE and DR aligned and moving forward together. You are one of the best!”
Colleague at Paylocity
“Thank you for volunteering to help me clean up our teams api endpoints. Creating a list of endpoints and going through them with me to identify what can be cleaned up/deleted is a big help. This work should help all of us understand what endpoints we need to maintain and test.”
Colleague at Paylocity
“Thank you for all of the help with Universal Reporting on TIN and helping me to understand how the WebTime Custom Reports fit in.”
Colleague at Paylocity
“Dear Matt, I would like to express my gratitude for your contributions last Friday. Your efforts ensured that the DE team had a low-risk deployment on Saturday morning. I appreciate your prompt action in scheduling a load test and reviewing the results later that evening. Your decisive actions eliminated the risks associated with this critical deployment. Thank you for your dedication and hard work. Best regards, Rene”
Director at Paylocity
“Congratulations on winning second place in the Spring 2025 Hackathon!”
Colleague at Paylocity
“Thank you all for taking time to provide your feedback, sentiment, and comments on the Engineering Experience survey. Our team is at 100% participation again, which helps me help you. I value your input on this survey and appreciate you all taking the time to provide it. Forward Together!!!”
Engineering Manager at Paylocity
“Matt, I just wanted to express my immense gratitude for partnering with me last night (1/10) to tackle those report writer failures! Your consistent willingness to help never goes unnoticed, and last night was no exception. Not only did you assist in identifying the issue, but you also took the time to explain DataDog and the history of the report writer, which will undoubtedly help me troubleshoot more effectively in the future. You truly make working at Paylocity an incredible experience! Thank you so much for everything you do, day in and day out!”
Colleague at Paylocity
“Matt, Gerardo, I appreciate your exceptional effort and teamwork in addressing the report row count issue on the Payroll Code Groups project. Your collaborative approach resulted in a practical solution and set the foundation for a sustainable long-term resolution. Your contributions have played a key role in keeping both DE and DR aligned and progressing towards the prompt completion of the new payroll reports. Well done!”
Director at Paylocity
“Thanks for all the research and due diligence leading up to our Monday release. We found stuff and did our best to confirm findings. You both did not stop there and monitored after deployment, where issues were found. You went above and beyond working on fix and we had a Hotfix ready when customers escalated in the AM. While a Red Alert is never our desire - both of you truly displayed Accountable Ownership and attention to quality during this challenging time. Thank You.”
Engineering Manager at Paylocity
“I appreciate you all!!! Your consistent and unrelenting dedication to Reporting and each other does not go unnoticed. You are a great team, awesome engineers, and I am so lucky to get to work alongside you all.”
Engineering Manager at Paylocity
“Thanks for getting on today and peer programing through a solution!”
Colleague at Paylocity
“Thank you both very much for working together to complete my request for a query this morning. I really appreciate the work that went into completing the ticket and the willingness to jump in to assist. Thank you again!”
Colleague at Paylocity
“Thanks for such a great year of accomplishments. 2026 is going to be epic and I am excited to see growth for all of us and major strides in the value we delight customers with. Happy Holidays, I appreciate every single one of you!!!”
Engineering Manager at Paylocity
“You have demonstrated the value of Earn It, Every Day by once again going the extra mile. Thanks for helping assist the CPU Increase tonight. There were some challenges that will require another attempt in coming days, but your remained positive and helpful and inquisitive into all things around the upgrade - You are a great leader and equalizer for our team ;-)”
Engineering Manager at Paylocity
“Matt and Mike, I wanted to take a moment to express my sincere gratitude for your unwavering commitment to resolving the MIN issue this afternoon. Your tireless efforts in researching and explaining the matter to various teams demonstrate your exceptional professionalism and dedication to the success of our organization. Your willingness to persevere through multiple investigations and your patience in clarifying the issue to different teams is truly commendable. Through our discussions, we were able to gain new insights and validate assumptions which will undoubtedly lead to better outcomes. I cannot thank you enough for your unwavering support. Your contributions to our collective success are invaluable, and I am honored to work alongside such dedicated and talented professionals. Thank you again for your incredible efforts. Best regards, [Your Name]”
Director at Paylocity
“Great job getting the sample Code Groups reports out in TIN, and leading a discussion to get questions answered and start iterating on them to ensure we delivery the right value to our customers. Your ability to get work done fast, and willingness to engage with others to ensure progress is much appreciated!!!”
Engineering Manager at Paylocity
“Thank you so much for diving into last weeks min and helping with the parts of our app I am less familiar with. I really appreciate you also sharing all your knowledge around the queuing of T&L reports so I could monitor the min later in the day, and in the future I will then be more capable of handling issues like this.”
Colleague at Paylocity
“Thank you for the high level overview of Reporting architecture! Very helpful for me, being new to the team.”
Colleague at Paylocity
“Thank you for your assistance in getting Recognition menu items hooked up with Reporting. You are appreciated!”
Colleague at Paylocity
“I can't say enough about how much I love working with Matt. He works his tail off to help customer retention which is so important to our brand and long term financials!”
Colleague at Paylocity
“Thank you so much for your incredible help with the Tin performance issues!”
Colleague at Paylocity
“Matt's been spearheading our Snowflake PoC for a couple of weeks, and his efforts have really helped to illustrate lots of nuances to our implementations that need work to be long term viable (like DateTimeOffset information). There might not be any human being I trust more to untangle deep nuances like this, and Im very thankful that Matt consistently demonstrates a level of commitment and thoroughness that is above and beyond.”
Colleague at Paylocity
“Thank you for spending so much time helping prepare us for Year End and taking a very active role in filling out our Year End pages with information that will ensure we know when we are ready for Year End volume and give our team insight as we monitor and ensure our customers needs are met during this critical time of year.”
Engineering Manager at Paylocity
“Matt spent a lot of time and effort on the year end readiness stuff, and added some very nice dashboards to try and help our team members and leadership more easily keep an eye on systems status during support weeks, as well as aiding in getting future stats together to answer these tedious year end evaluations. Its going to be a huge help in the future!”
Colleague at Paylocity
“I would like to recognize Matt for jumping in, and providing assistance on the load test Snowflake issues that are contending with on Employee Voice. The insight that you discovered while quickly scanning through Snowflake driver code was a big factor in getting this issue resolved. Thank you!”
Colleague at Paylocity
“Thank you all for being such active and engaged participants in our Reporting onsite. These 2 days were so productive and we yielded some amazing, actionable next steps. I'm excited to see all of our hard work come to fruition and to make the Reporting product the best it can be. Safe travels home, everyone!”
Colleague at Paylocity
“Thank you for volunteering to hop into some Data Dog digging with me, and helping me better understand some things I'd previously just been stumbling through. You not only helped me gain some valuable knowledge about Data Dog but also helped me fine tune the metrics about the recent MIN that we needed. Thank you so much!”
Colleague at Paylocity
“I would like to take a moment to express my deepest appreciation for everything you do. I consider myself extremely fortunate to be a member of this amazing team of individuals who are wholeheartedly committed to our product and delivering an exceptional experience for our valued customers. Thank You!”
Colleague at Paylocity
“Thank you so much, Matt, for taking the time to help me understand that what I thought was an issue in Tin wasn't really a problem at all. I truly appreciate your time, advice, and insights!”
Colleague at Paylocity
“Great job putting your heads together to figure out the performance improvements for Employee Voices performance on Snowflake! Your dedication and expertise are greatly appreciated!”
Engineering Manager at Paylocity
“I love when Matt gets a chance to take something (like the new custom calcs work) and run with it. That project is probably are largest jump forward in functionality in the last 5 years, and he deserves ample praise for knowing just where to apply that small bit of effort to deliver such a massive win. Kudos!”
Colleague at Paylocity
“I'd like to thank Matt for taking time out this quarter to help evaluate and troubleshoot a complex claim security issue impacting Boolean custom fields. Beyond the technical guidance, I really appreciate Matt's approach to expressing and reinforcing team standards. While we're still working through this specific issue, the experience will help in the future. I know many people are competing for Matt's time, yet he remains incredibly generous with it. Thanks for investing in the team's growth, Matt. It means a lot!”
Colleague at Paylocity
“You're always willing to jump in and work on solving any issue for the team or the organization. Thanks for all the hard, smart work Matt! It doesn't go unnoticed.”
Colleague at Paylocity
“Getting in a room with smart people and just solving problems without the bloat of managerial interference and process is a rarity now at PCTY, and I just wanted to call out how utterly enjoyable it was to work with all of you on the file server proxy sync/async issue yesterday. It reminded me what this company can be, and having a room full of old guard who remember that and can slip seamlessly back into a more functional problem solving approach was refreshing. Thank you all!”
Colleague at Paylocity
“Congrats on 1,000,000 Dynamic Report runs in a single month. We are just getting started, but I am so proud of all of you. I have seen many of the ups and downs and hard work to get to this milestone. The customer centric focus and amazing ownership and accountability you all have is going to make this a stepping stone to even higher highs. Enjoy this because you earned it by being Unbeatable Together.”
Engineering Manager at Paylocity
“Thanks for helping Christmas week with Carbon performance issue investigation. I also appreciate helping Ops team queue up reports to save them hours of time.”
Engineering Manager at Paylocity
“Matt, Jason, I would like to express my gratitude for your prompt assistance in supporting Anne today. Your expertise in delving into the issues and swiftly identifying the root causes has been instrumental in our efforts to resolve this significant incident efficiently. Your support has been invaluable. Thank you sincerely, Rene”
Director at Paylocity
“Matt, your hard work on the Headcount Planning Template Report made a difference you will probably never even realize. You saved me, my team, and countless clients hours of tedious work and spreadsheet manipulation all while balancing your existing work. I can't thank you enough, and you truly demonstrated how you earn it, every day! Thanks again!”
Colleague at Paylocity
“I appreciate you taking the time to go over some of reporting architecture and helping me get my local working!”
Colleague at Paylocity
“Thanks for all the help on the early morning MIN”
Colleague at Paylocity
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