Matthew Harwood

Engineering Manager

Portland, Oregon, United States13 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

12 years of experience in web technologies.
Led teams to significant revenue increases.
Expert in web performance and user experience.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused web engineer with strong leadership and design capabilities.

Contact

harwood@uber.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipTeam DevelopmentPeople ManagementSoftware DevelopmentWeb DevelopmentJavascriptGraphic DesignGame Development

Other Skills

3D AnimationAdobe Creative SuiteAdobe PhotoshopAngularAngularJSAudio ProcessingCSSCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Character AnimationCreative DirectionCross-functional Team LeadershipDyslexic ThinkingE-commerceGame AudioHTML

About

👋🏻 I thrive on the opportunities to lead teams, mentor others, transform careers, inspire creativity and foster great relationships. I am a passionate engineer with 12 years of experience delivering innovative and high quality products for some of the world’s most well known brands. I am a specialist in web technologies, with a deep understanding of web performance and a laser sharp focus to for beautiful designs and user experience. My professional goals are simple: surround myself by smart, diverse, energetic, creative people while working on solving problems that matter.

Experience

Uber

4 roles

Engineering Manager II

Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos

People manage a team of 8 data, backend, and frontend software engineers.
Ownerships of a $XXX million dollar web service and the bespoke CMS that powers it.
I push the boundaries of server and client web performance.
I raise the bar on product managers, designers, and engineers.
I am a leader & collaborator that has a deep passion for operational execution and team development.

Operational ExcellenceTeam DevelopmentLeadership

Engineering Manager

Promoted

May 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 10 mos

Led a team of 8+ data, backend, and frontend software engineers.
Facilitated a 2x increase in GB, resulting in an additional $XXX million in revenue.
Reduced Uber.com infrastructure costs by 99%, from $2M to under $100K annually.
Proactively assembled and led a team to build a bespoke bot defense framework, reducing TTD/TTM for DDoS attacks by 96% (from ~30 minutes to less than 1 minute) and decreasing unwanted automated traffic by 60% (1B page views annually) without impacting GB or signups.
Led a cross-organizational team to improve web performance, reducing P99 server latency by 85% (from 3000ms to 400ms) and increasing server RPS by 100x per core.

People ManagementObjectives and Key Results (OKRs)Software DevelopmentPresentation SkillsCross-functional Team Leadership

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

Professional Typist

React.jsCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Web DevelopmentHTML + CSSSEOJavaScript+2

Senior Design Engineer

Dec 2018 – Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Creating beautiful rectangles that live inside other rectangles.

React.jsCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Web DevelopmentHTML + CSSSEOJavaScript+2

R/ga

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer, web platforms @ Uber

Mar 2018 – Dec 2018 · 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Building UI components in React for Uber.com

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)Web DevelopmentHTML + CSSSEOJavaScriptCSS+1

Senior Software Engineer, web platforms @ Google

Aug 2015 – Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Works as an embedded Software Engineer for Google's Interactive Marketing Division.
Development and localization of "Google Experience Marketers" landing page.
UxD, development, and the localization of "Google Translate" landing page.
Localization for "Google Adsense" landing page.
UxD, development, and localization of "Now On Tap" mobile on-boarding experience.

AngularCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Web DevelopmentAngularJSE-commerceHTML + CSS+5

Akqa

4 roles

Creative Developer @ Apple

Jul 2015 – Aug 2015 · 1 mo

Worked as an embedded Web Developer for Apple's Interactive Marcom division.
Development of the 2015 "Apple Watch" landing page.

Interactive AdvertisingCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Web DevelopmentHTML + CSSInformation ArchitectureJavaScript+4

Creative Developer

Sep 2014 – Jul 2015 · 10 mos

Worked as a Designer and Developer for physical and digital brand experiences.
Brands such as: Target, Google Nest, AXA, Audi, Jordan

Adobe PhotoshopAngularUnityInteractive AdvertisingGraphic DesignCascading Style Sheets (CSS)+16

Associate Creative Developer

Apr 2014 – Sep 2014 · 5 mos

Worked as a Designer and Developer for physical and digital brand experiences.
Brands such as: Target, Bud Light and Visa.

Adobe PhotoshopInteractive AdvertisingGraphic DesignCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Web DevelopmentVisualization+13

Creative Technologist Intern @ Future Academy Program

Jan 2014 – Apr 2014 · 3 mos

My time as an Intern encompassed ideation, prototyping and pitching fresh products and services to various AKQA clients.
Co-created a rapid prototyping, web based, CMS for Nike Jordan. The launch of this project lead me to receiving to a Full Time position at AKQA.
AKQA Future Academy Program: http://www.akqa.com/futureacademy/

Adobe PhotoshopGame AudioInteractive AdvertisingGraphic DesignCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Web Development+19

Qomo

Marketing & Web Specialist

Jul 2010 – Aug 2011 · 1 yr 1 mo

I reach out to businesses, educational institutions & governmental establishments, by creating comprehensive marketing materials across web and print.

Adobe PhotoshopMicrosoft OfficeInteractive AdvertisingGraphic DesignCascading Style Sheets (CSS)InDesign+15