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Matthew Zhan

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in SaaS, distributed systems, and FinTech workflows

DockYardUniversity of Texas at AustinTexas, USA9 Years ExperienceSenior Level

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Full-stack engineer with strong startup experience across small distributed teams, owning everything from React UIs to Go services and Python data pipelines. He stands out for designing stable APIs and data models in ambiguous compliance-heavy environments, with measurable impact including a 38% reduction in manual cleanup and a 27% drop in customer-visible incidents. He has also worked deeply in B2B SaaS at Ashby, supporting mission-critical recruiting workflows where data correctness, permissions, and integration stability were essential.

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Key Strengths

  • Full-stack ownership across React/TypeScript and Go services
  • Thrives in ambiguous early-stage startup environments
  • Strong API contract and data model design upfront
  • Built vendor data normalization pipeline reducing manual cleanup by 38%
  • Improved reliability with a 27% drop in customer-visible incidents
  • Database performance tuning from 4+ second queries to under 700 ms
  • Production-minded engineering with health checks, retries, and tracing
  • Fast local/prod parity setup, reducing environment setup from nearly a day to under 90 minutes
  • Careful large-scale migration execution on tables with millions of rows
  • Customer-facing B2B SaaS experience supporting HR and talent workflows
  • Cross-functional problem solving with customer success on urgent integration issues

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Experience

Lead Software EngineerDockYard · Apr 2023 – Present
Senior Software EngineerAshby · Jan 2022 – Mar 2023
Senior Software EngineerAmazon · Oct 2018 – Dec 2020
Software EngineerAmazon · May 2016 – Sep 2018

Education

University of Texas at Austinbachelor, Computer Software Engineering (2016)

Languages

English

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Matthew ZhanSenior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in SaaS, distributed systems, and FinTech workflows