Matthew Harwood

Engineering Manager @ Uber

Portland, Oregon, United States

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 (Full-time · 7 yrs 7 mos)
    • Engineering Manager II
      Aug 2024 - Present · 1 yr 11 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.

    • Engineering Manager
      May 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 2 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.

    • Senior Software Engineer
      Apr 2021 - Jun 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

      Professional Typist

  • R/GA (San Francisco Bay Area)
    • Senior Software Engineer, web platforms @ Uber
      Mar 2018 - Dec 2018 · 10 mos

      Building UI components in React for Uber.com

    • Senior Software Engineer, web platforms @ Google
      Aug 2015 - Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 8 mos

      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.

  • AKQA (1 yr 8 mos)
    • Creative Developer @ Apple
      Jul 2015 - Aug 2015 · 2 mos

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

    • Creative Developer
      Sep 2014 - Jul 2015 · 11 mos

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

    • Associate Creative Developer
      Apr 2014 - Sep 2014 · 6 mos

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

  • Marketing & Web Specialist at QOMO
    Jul 2010 - Aug 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos

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