Engineering
What I find most fascinating about engineering is the process and problem solving. Every new feature, bug, or improvement is a new problem to be solved!
Background
I graduated in 2012 from Westminster College with my Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and was lucky to find a Software Engineering position at ChemADVISOR. I learned so much at ChemADVISOR and made lifelong friendships. I had the opportunity of having a great mentor there who pushed me into leadership. I found I loved it!
In 2015, I decided to further my education and enrolled in the Master of Science in Software Engineering program at West Virginia University. I graduated in December 2017, and in February 2018, I received my Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification from the University of Michigan.
My career and educational paths have led me toward the following two passions:
- Creating the best team cultures: ones of trust, understanding, companionship, accountability, and continuous learning.
- Process improvement: delivering high-quality products and services to customers fast while reducing non-value-added time.
Education
B.S. Computer Science
Westminster College (PA)
Math and Music Minors
M.S. Software Engineering
West Virginia University
Certification Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
University of Michigan
Services
Software Engineering
I have experience developing and leading teams of engineers for desktop and mobile applications across many tech-stacks. Do you need help with requirements, estimates, feasibilities, or advice? Contact me today!
Leadership Development
Management is one thing, but can we do better? I am a student of servant leadership. Empowering our teams is the only way to succeed. I would love to share my talents and skills with your team!
Process Improvement
By following time-tested manufacturing process improvements, we can optimize the software development lifecycle and quickly deliver high-quality products to our customers.
Project Management
By following Agile project management, our teams can provide iterative value that delights customers. Contact me today for help with Kanban, Scrum, or Scrumban software development!
Experience
FIS
Pittsburgh, PA (Remote)
Director of Mobile Engineering
January 2025 – June 2025Coordinated the procurement of 60 developers, organized by 7 feature teams, geographically located in the US, Mexico, Poland, and India, to transform our white-label mobile banking app. Promoted a unified mission and values, led in engineering best practices, found process improvement opportunities.
- Reimagined feature set while migrating from Ionic-Angular to React Native, aligning with a unified tech stack.
Audacy
Pittsburgh, PA (Remote)
Sr. Director of Engineering, Amperwave and BetQL
September 2023 – January 2025Directed the delivery teams on two of the most profitable Audacy assets, BetQL and Amperwave. Delivered key-growth player props sports betting features for the BetQL platform. Reimagined the Amperwave podcasting platform to be seamlessly integrated with internal and external parties, increasing platform adoption and revenue growth.
- Directed Audacy's Amperwave full stack engineering and QA teams around podcast delivery, ingestion, and AdTech campaign management.
- Directed the BetQL full stack engineering efforts including React Native iOS and Android mobile apps, Next.JS web app, subscription management via RevenueCat, Stripe, GraphQL Node server, MySQL, and GCP backend.
Sr. Director of Engineering, Clients and Client Services
January 2023 – September 2023Managed all B2C Audacy streaming app teams (Dev, QA, PM) including native, RN iOS, and Android mobile apps, React web SPA, and connected devices such as Alexa, Google Home, Automotive OS, and Smart TVs.
Director of Engineering, Clients
January 2022 – December 2022Responsible for the launch of the A2 platform, a complete overhaul of our apps and infrastructure. Led a group of 20 team members, including 2 engineering managers and respective development teams, a product owner, a scrum master, and QA team.
- Platform increased total listening hours (TLH) year over year since launching in July 2022, increasing ad revenue and making it the pivotal revenue driving digital platform for Audacy.
Branding Brand
Pittsburgh, PA (Remote)
Director of E-Commerce Engineering
March 2021 – January 2022Led the engineering, product development, & client relationships of our major retail partners. Pivotal in leading the teams responsible for launching the Ralph Lauren, DXL, and Tilly's mobile apps, along with new and improved versions of the Burberry, BJ's Wholesale Club, and Madewell mobile apps.
- Led five engineering managers and their respective mobile development teams.
- Managed strong development, product, QA, and design coordination to meet client expectations.
Software Development Manager
July 2019 – March 2021Acted as engineering and project manager for the BJ's Wholesale Club React Native mobile app.
- Included capacity planning, requirements engineering, technical feasibilities, Scrumban project management, retrospectives, demos, story grooming and sub tasking, and product direction.
- Responsible for the career and technical coaching of a team of developers.
- Promoter of best practices: Jira project and release management, automation when possible, full team PR reviews, unit tests, and embedding checklists in critical activities.
Brunner
Pittsburgh, PA
Product Director
October 2018 – July 2019Product and project manager of an investment portal for a large player in the wealth-management industry.
- Created an interactive and engaging team culture while ensuring growth and profitability.
- Implemented Kanban development methodology and continuous improvement activities.
- Worked with clients and design/development teams to develop short and long-term plans for system design.
- Provided recommendations and insight to clients regarding their technology and development platforms.
ChemADVISOR / UL Solutions
Pittsburgh, PA
Software Engineering Manager
May 2015 – October 2018Led and developed our safety data sheet authoring full-stack software suite and our first ChemADVISOR Training ionic mobile application. Increased company revenue as we grew SaaS hosting of our authoring software year over year.
- Supervised and mentored a globally diverse engineering team in the USA, China, Belgium, and India.
Software Engineer
May 2012 – May 2015Microsoft .NET Agile developer as part of a global team using C#, VB.NET, SQL Server, XML, XSLT, and CSS.
- Reduced code complexity, increased test coverage, and profiled code using Big(O) time complexity analysis.
- Implemented a CruiseControl.NET server, the team's first automated continuous integration tool.
Skills & Tools
Programming Languages
Scripting
Data, Styling & Transformation
Tools & IDEs
Platforms & CI/CD
Methodologies
Projects
A selection of notable projects throughout my career.
Omni Studio Migration to Amperwave
Audacy
Directed the migration of all Audacy podcasts from Omni Studio to inhouse podcasting platform Amperwave, delivering substantial cost-savings to the company.
- Coordinated the cutoff and migration of 2k podcasts, 800k episodes, and all included RSS feeds.
- Provided hands-on SQL experience working with the team to run migration scripts and health checks.
Client Services Overhaul
Audacy
Led the initiative to revamp our legacy Client Services package in our Audacy mobile apps to increase development velocity and provide better visibility for app support issues.
- Migrated from JavaScript to TypeScript, converting to modern programming techniques.
- Incorporated XState as state management solution for all audio streaming.
- Sold the need for the project to leadership and coordinated all project management.
Anytime Live
Audacy
Led the team through the launch of the Anytime Live service that allows content creators to stream live shows to a digital audience, similar to Instagram or Facebook Live.
- Uses SignalWire with WebRTC for session hosting and audio/video streaming, and message passing via Pubsub.
- Coordinated the MVP of the feature and helped elevate the impact of scope creep to stakeholders.
- Worked on team knowledge transfer as some team members rolled off mid-development.
A2 App Performance Improvements
Audacy
Led the initiative to greatly improve the stability and performance of the apps.
- Coordinated improvements including unnecessary rerenders, improved animation logic, more efficient Recoil atoms, fixing crashing bugs, and reducing player events sent from Client Services.
A2 Program Launch
Audacy
Oversaw the pre-launch development and July 2022 launch of new A2 React Native iOS and Android apps, Web SPA, and Client Services core package.
- Dual-maintained legacy native iOS and Android apps until the cutover to the new RN apps.
- Coordinated with all backend teams on a run book, deploy dependencies, and rollback options.
Curbside Pickup
Branding Brand
Engineering and project management of a curbside pickup feature for two wholesale club partner's mobile apps.
- Developed a workflow between the consumer app and the team member app so users can buy online, pull up to the store, and have their order delivered to their car.
- During the pandemic, this feature allowed users to safely pick up their orders while not exposing themselves and others in the store. For people in high-risk groups, this potentially is the only way for them to get life-saving food and supplies.
Engineering New-Hire Onboarding
Branding Brand, Audacy, and FIS
Spearheaded the Confluence engineering onboarding program for new team members, providing a comprehensive semi-asynchronous learning experience.
- Utilized Jira, articles and videos to create an asynchronous onboarding experience.
- Recorded training videos so new hires can learn parts of the process asynchronously.
Instacart Same-Day Delivery Integration
Branding Brand
Led the team to create a seamless integration with the wholesale club partner and Instacart for same-day delivery purchases.
- Utilized client Instacart API wrappers to engineer a native and seamless checkout experience of Instacart items.
- Created new React Native components to show and receive SDD data.
- Included a mixed cart experience (ship to home, buy online pickup in store, and Instacart items all in the same cart).
PayPal Payment Integration
Branding Brand
Integrated React Native PayPal as a bridge into the wholesale club partner's app.
- Utilized the Braintree SDK and JWT token creation on the server side to create a web view experience for associating a PayPal account to a checkout.
Guitar Gallery Website Redesign
Freelance
Worked with father (Tim S. Matyas) and brother (Tom Matyas) to redesign Guitar Gallery's website.
- Project plan based on requirements gathering and evaluation of the existing site.
- Used WordPress as the CMS technology.
- Created both staging (AWS EC2) and production (DreamHost) environments.
Safety Data Sheet Authoring Software
ChemADVISOR / UL Solutions
Engineering manager, project manager, and developer as part of a five-member development team.
- Microsoft .NET desktop application written in C# and hosted in AWS.
- Architected and managed a team to build an XML content repository that mirrored the implementation of Subversion using a web service and Microsoft SQL database.
- Performed requirements engineering, managed and estimated issues, created and kicked off sprints, monitored sprint progress, closed sprints, and deployed software.
Autonomous Firefighting Robots
Westminster College & Freelance
Constructed two autonomous robots (YYZ and BU2B2) that navigated rooms of a mock house floor layout searching for and extinguishing a candle.
- YYZ was written in C with an experimental operating system with 2 linked Atmel chips.
- BU2B2 used an Arduino MEGA board and was written in C++.
- Competed for 3 years in the Trinity College Firefighting Competition in Hartford, CT.
- This was an incredible experience that instilled a lifelong interest in hobby robotics.
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