Engineering and Leadership services

Projects

Anytime Live – Audacy

• Led our team through the launch of our Anytime Live service that allows our content creators to stream live shows to a digital audience.
  • The feature set is similar to Instagram or Facebook live, but listeners can also call in and join the conversation.
  • Uses SignalWire, with WebRTC under the hood, for session hosting and audio/video streaming, and message passing via Pubsub.
• Coordinated the MVP of the feature and helped to elevate the impact of scope creep to stake holders.
• Worked on team knowledge transfer as we had some team members roll off the project mid development.
• Coordinated the launch alongside our A2 App Performance Improvements project.

 

A2 App Performance Improvements – Audacy

• Led the initiative to greatly improve the stability and performance of our apps.
• Coordinated with the group, and other teams in our tech stack, to work on multiple areas of improvements including unnecessary rerenders, improved animation logic, more efficient Recoil atoms, fixing crashing bugs, and reducing the number of player events sent from Client Services.

 

A2 Front-End and Backend Launch – Audacy

• Oversaw the pre-launch development and July 2022 launch of our new A2 (Audacy 2.0) React Native iOS and Android apps, Web SPA, and Client Services core package.
• 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 of our wholesale club partner’s mobile apps.
• In order to fulfill buy online pickup in store orders, we have a team member app that we developed and maintain. This work involved coordinating a workflow between the consumer app and the team member app so that user’s can buy online, pull up to the store, and have their order delivered by a team member to their car.
• This work was extremely rewarding and the most meaningful of my career. During the pandemic, this feature allowed users to safely pickup 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. I was very proud of my team and I for engineering a feature that helps so many people!

 

Engineering Onboarding and Epic Checklist – Branding Brand

• Speer-headed the engineering onboarding program at Branding Brand.
• Utilized Jira to create engineering onboarding epics. These epics are checklists that contain subtasks for each cultural and technical task a new hire would need in the onboarding process. 
• Recorded training videos so new hires can learn parts of the process asynchronously.

 

Instacart Same-Day Delivery (SDD) Integration – Branding Brand

• Lead our team to create a seamless integration with our wholesale club partner and Instacart for SDD 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. For example, a user can have a ship to home item, buy online pickup in store item, and an Instacart item all in the same cart and checkout through a single flow. This differs from a typical web view navigation to Instacart’s website to checkout Instacart items.

 

PayPal Payment Integration – Branding Brand

• Worked to integrate React Native Paypal as a bridge into our wholesale club partner’s app.
• Utilized the Braintree SDK and JWT token creation on the server side to create a web view experience for a user to associate a PayPal account to a checkout.

 

Guitar Gallery Website Redesign and Implementation – Freelance

• Worked with my father (Tim S. Matyas) and brother (Tom Matyas) to redo Guitar Gallery‘s website.
• A project plan was put together based off of requirements gathering and evaluation of the existing site.
• Researched and used WordPress as the CMS technology.
• Created both staging and production environments for development. The staging site uses an AWS t2 micro EC2 instance. The production site uses DreamHost as the hosting provider.
• Frequently pushed iterative value to my father and brother. By working in an agile way, I was able to receive feedback fast, make changes, redeploy, and continue the cycle.

 

Safety Data Sheet Authoring Software and XML Content Repository – ChemADVISOR / UL

• Engineering manager, project manager, and developer as part of a five-member development team consisting of internal and offshore developers.  
• Microsoft .NET desktop application written in C# and hosted in AWS for a series of customers. 
• Architected and managed a team to build an XML content repository that mirrored the implementation of subversion. This was developed using a web service and Microsoft SQL database.
• Performed requirements engineering with users, managed and estimated issues, created and kicked off sprints, monitored sprint progress, closed sprints, and deployed software. 

 

Autonomous Firefighting Robots – Westminster College and Freelance

• Constructed two autonomous robots (YYZ my first robot and BU2B2 my second robot) that successfully navigated all rooms of a mock house floor layout in search of a candle. Once the candle was found, the robot extinguished it.  Additionally, BU2B2 was able to return to the start location.
• YYZ was written in C and used an experimental operating system with 2 linked Atmel chips. BU2B2 used an Arduino MEGA board and was written in C++.
• BU2B2’s parts included a custom perf board with keyed and labeled connectors, frame and wheel chassis, DFRobot distance sensors, line detector, motor controller, fan, lcd, start button, and heat sync.
• Competed for 3 years in the Trinity College Firefighting Competition in Hartford, CT.  My first year was with YYZ as part of my capstone work at Westminster College. My second and third years were with BU2B2 as a freelance hobbyist.
• This was an incredible experience that instilled a lifelong interest in hobby robotics.
• BU2B2 is featured below in picture and video.