Matt Patterson
Senior Engineer at RepVue
Richmond, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Patterson is a Senior Engineer with 17 years of experience designing scalable web applications and production ML/NLP systems for startups and enterprises. He has led engineering teams and shaped technical strategy—most recently as Principal Software Architect at Atlas Obscura and now at RepVue—while also building data services, APIs, and autoscaling CI/CD infrastructure end-to-end. Matt holds hands-on expertise in custom word-embedding and NLP models as well as integrating third-party LLMs, and he is the named inventor on patented algorithms developed during his tenure as Director of Engineering at SkillsEngine. Comfortable across databases (Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch), cloud deployment (AWS ECS/Fargate, Docker), and Rails-based backends, he combines strategic leadership with deep implementation skill. Based in Richmond, VA, he thrives on complex problems and continuously explores new technologies to deliver measurable business impact.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA English, Bachelor of Arts - BA English at Virginia Tech
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Github Skills (108)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mepatterson/grape_ape_rails
Aug 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:39 commits, 13 pushes, 13 tags in 10 months
austinonrails/members2
Dec 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:38 commits, 9 pushes in 4 months
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