Matthew Scholta
A Software Engineer
👨‍💻Driving enterprise-wide technical initiatives. Transforming legacy systems into modern architectures. Building scalable systems that enable teams to ship faster.
Experience
Sr. Staff EngineerSept 2022 - Present
- Architected and delivered microservice transformation strategy, splitting monolith into 7+ GraphQL APIs and 7 Remix applications, enabling independent scaling and faster feature delivery across teams
- Led enterprise-wide TypeScript adoption initiative, establishing strongly typed GraphQL APIs organization-wide, influencing technical standards across the engineering organization and improving system reliability
- Modernized background job processing infrastructure by migrating from AgendaJS to BullMQ, delivering 40%+ performance improvements and enabling horizontal scaling
- Built comprehensive observability infrastructure with Datadog, reducing mean time to resolution by 60% through improved monitoring, logging, and alerting
- Automated service scaffolding via custom NX generators, reducing new service setup time from days to hours and ensuring architectural consistency across teams
- Introduced modern tooling stack (Remix, NX, NestJS, TailwindCSS, BullMQ, Redis) that streamlined development workflows, accelerated delivery, and improved developer experience organization-wide
Principal EngineerApr 2021 - Aug 2022
- Architected containerization strategy, containerizing 80% of the stack and development workflow, eliminating deployment inconsistencies and improving developer productivity by 50%+
- Established GraphQL API standards and strongly typed services across the organization, reducing integration errors by 70% and improving system maintainability
- Led complete platform rebuild from Python + Django to NextJS, modernizing the web experience, improving performance metrics by 40%+, and enabling faster feature delivery
- Built comprehensive development infrastructure—survey framework, CSS style guide, monorepo architecture, and full testing suite—establishing practices that enabled 3x faster feature delivery
Staff EngineerFeb 2016 - Apr 2021
- Conceived and architected content management system that streamlined content operations, reduced time-to-market for marketing initiatives by 60%, and enabled cross-team collaboration
- Led Progressive Web App (PWA) development initiative that significantly improved mobile user experience, increased engagement metrics by 35%, and established mobile-first patterns
- Architected Lerna monorepo structure enabling better code sharing and development workflow across the engineering teams, reducing code duplication and improving consistency
- Modernized design system through comprehensive CSS overhaul, improving maintainability, reducing development time by 40%, and establishing design system standards
- Delivered critical platform upgrades: Apollo GraphQL migration, Redux state management migration, and complete checkout system overhaul, improving performance and developer experience
Technical Team LeadNov 2011 - Apr 2015
- Google TrainUP: Architected and delivered comprehensive training platform serving enterprise clients
- Google Databoard: Built data visualization dashboard from concept to production, enabling better data-driven decisions
- Facebook Disaster Relief: Rapidly prototyped and delivered response platform using BackboneJS and Facebook APIs
- Apple iAds: Developed HTML microsites and created internal tooling that reduced production costs and accelerated delivery
- Established technical leadership practices including application architecture standards, documentation, and code review processes
Education
San Francisco State University
Coursework in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design
Chose a self-directed learning path through practical experience: freelancing and part-time work in graphic/web design and web development. Teaching Assistant roles in manufacturing systems, metals fabrication, and design drafting.