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Matthew McCarty

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Currently a senior software engineer at Conseillers en Gestion et Informatique (CGI) building internal tools for Cox Communications, Inc. in the network planning and data-center growth space. Previously, an Int'l banking specialist at US Bank and English Lecturer at 重庆大学 (Chongqing University). Been consulting in the telecom industry since 2021. Working with Go and Typescript a lot these days, but have worked with many languages, frameworks, and in various capacities on legacy and greenfield projects––from front- and back-end engineering to DevOps and SRE.

Experience

Cox Communications, Inc.

Tech Lead · Network & Data-Center Planning · Consultant since 2021

  • Led a team of engineers: code reviews, onboarding, technical interviews, and translating stakeholder requirements into technical solutions.
  • Migrated applications to GCP Anthos, optimized Dockerfiles, Kubernetes manifests, CI/CD pipelines, and set up local development environments (guides, seed data, templates) for fast onboarding.
  • Built internal tools that streamlined network planners' workflows—from plan creation and field review to submission––replacing error-prone manual processes.
  • Built a data-center capacity forecasting model that identified capacity bottlenecks years ahead of time, enabling efficient allocation of capacity-enhancement projects and network equipment.
  • Introduced AI chat capabilities with domain-specific retrieval, built custom AI harnesses, and modernized several legacy applications.

Used: Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node, SQLC, Express, Hono, Bun, Tailwind, Vite, TanStack, Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Druid, Dart, Flutter, Kubernetes, Docker, Grafana, Prometheus, MongoDB, Java, Spring Boot, Gradle, Angular, React Testing Library, Cypress, Playwright, Ollama, AWS, GCP (GKE), Azure

Washington University

Software Engineer · Independent Schools of St. Louis (ISSL) system · Summer 2021

  • Built data collection and visualization React SPA with serverless Spring Boot APIs for Covid-tracking research.

Used: React, Javascript, Java, Spring Boot, Python, AWS (Aurora, SAM, Amplify, Cognito, Lambda, API Gateway)

US Bank

Int'l Banking Specialist · Int'l Banking Dept. StandBy Desk · 2019–2021

  • Drafted and serviced chained irrevocable obligations (ISP98, UCP600, URDG758) with partner banks in 50+ countries.
  • Promoted to highest-grade specialist within four months; one of ten in the U.S. named standby drafting subject matter expert.
  • Named Better Ways of Working Champion; automated reporting by building AS/400 terminal-emulator macros for colleagues.