Matthew J. Sahagian

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About Me

I am a (mostly) self-taught technical solutions architect with over 15 years of professional programming experience focused on web-based application development. My skills extend across all facets of product development, from systems setup and database design to back-end and front-end implementation. As a strong proponent of open source software, I seek to build reliable and cost-effective custom solutions for a wide variety of organizations and purposes.

Begin Employment:

Primd Cooperative Remote
Title:
Founder, Technical Architect
Years:
April, 2025 - Present
Experience:
  • Configured, deployed, and integrated open-source operational tools for authentication and collaboration on top of an AWS, Debian Linux, and Docker foundation.
  • Designed Memgraph, Postgres, and Kafka based data layer to provide highly relational data and an asynchronous operations.
  • Combined PHP, HTMX, AlpineJS, and Tailwind to develop a light-weight mobile Progressive Web Application to power worker tools and services.
Jobs for the Future Remote
Title:
Technical Architect
Years:
August, 2023 - April, 2025
Experience:
  • Architected and built multiple product prototypes oriented towards workforce, training, and climate data exploration.
  • Led technical implementation team on Job Corps (US Department of Labor) nation-wide career planning platform: MyPACE.
  • Supported IT and research teams to consistently improve solutions and reduce costs.
Imarc Newburyport, MA; Santa Cruz, CA; Remote
Title:
Lead Web Engineer
Years:
November, 2009 - May, 2010;
August, 2011 - August, 2023
Experience:
  • Proposed and led the development of a consolidated product platform to serve disparate client CPA societies, creating a sustainable revenue model.
  • Executed contract work for Motorola, maintaining developer systems for early non-US app store alternative to Google Play.
  • Developed and maintained dozens of client websites and applications including: SSH and Tuft's SPEC Database

Begin Education:

New England Institute of Technology Warwick, RI
Graduated:
December 2004
Degree:
Associate, Computer Information Systems
Performance:
Dean's List
University of Massachusetts Lowell, MA
Attended:
September 2005 - June 2006
Major:
English
  1. AWS (EC2, S3, IAM)
  2. Containerization (Docker, Podman)
  3. Data Engineering (Meltano, DBT)
  4. Front-End (React, Vite)
  5. Git (CLI, Github, Gitlab)
  6. HTTP (Caddy, Apache)
  7. HTML + CSS (Native, Tailwind)
  8. JavaScript (Native, HTMX, AlpineJS)
  9. Linux (Debian)
  10. Messaging (Queues, Kafka)
  11. NoSQL (Redis, Mongo)
  12. PHP (Symfony, Doctrine)
  13. REST (HTTP/S, JSON, OAuth)
  14. Shell Scripting (BASH, TCSH)
  15. SQL (PGSQL, MySQL/Maria)
  16. Systems Programming (Nim, C)