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Full-stack software engineer

Matt Cole
Anderson

I build reliable, high-impact software for public-sector and enterprise systems—from modern web applications to distributed cloud infrastructure and data pipelines.

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Selected work

Experience

January 2025 – Present

Washington, DC

Full Stack Software Engineer

Raft

  • Contribute to a mission-critical federal system managing the $16.5 billion TANF grant program for HHS, processing quarterly data submissions from 50+ state, territorial, and tribal governments using Django, React, PostgreSQL, and Cloud.gov.
  • Architected and independently developed a Feedback Reporting system serving government offices in all 50 states, using Django REST Framework and React to automate a previously manual process.
  • Led a migration from Docker registry to GitHub Container Registry, re-architecting CI/CD workflows and reducing deployment time by 40%.
  • Designed the migration of a financial reporting application to role-based access control, improving security posture and reducing full-stack complexity.
  • Built multi-sheet XLSX validation and end-to-end Cypress testing across user roles and submission workflows, increasing test coverage by 25%.

March 2022 – January 2025

North Little Rock, AR

Software Engineer

First Orion

  • Led development of a Java, Spring, and TypeScript service that automated phone-number verification and cut expenses by $200,000 annually.
  • Designed a scalable Go, REST, and DynamoDB API for near-real-time call protection, generating $800,000 in annual revenue.
  • Developed Go microservices supporting branding for over 1 billion phone calls per year and more than $50 million in annual revenue.
  • Built enterprise applications across AWS and automated infrastructure with Terraform, reducing deployment time by 90% and cloud costs by 30%.
  • Deployed Spark pipelines with Scala and Python on Databricks, with many jobs processing hundreds of gigabytes daily.

June 2020 – March 2022

Little Rock, AR

Software Engineer

Euronet Software Solutions

  • Developed a Java microservice backend for real-time, cross-border payments deployed in over 180 countries and handling more than 1 billion transactions annually.
  • Designed an automated transaction-validation system using Java, XML, and XSLT, improving throughput-testing reliability by 40% and source-data integrity by 80%.

Technical toolkit

Skills

01

Languages

Python, TypeScript, Java, Scala, Go, C, C++

02

Cloud & DevOps

AWS, Cloud.gov, Databricks, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes

03

Data

PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Spark

04

Frameworks & Tools

Django, React, Spring, REST, Celery, Cypress, gRPC, Grafana

Continued growth

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology

Master of Science in Computer Science

Expected May 2028

University of Central Arkansas

Bachelor of Business Administration in Management Information Systems

December 2019

Let’s build something useful

Interested in working together?

career@mattcoleanderson.com