Matt Freeman

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Director of Engineering at Cloudflare · Payments infrastructure

Cloudflare
Nashville, TN · CT (UTC-6)
12+ years experience
University of Wisconsin–Madison
English
Advising
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Overview

Currently at Cloudflare, where I lead payments infrastructure with a team of 8. Cut p99 latency on the payments platform services from 862ms to 60ms. Most at home with PCI DSS and PostgreSQL.

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  • Advice on payments infrastructure
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Skills
idempotencyGoJavaPCI DSSPostgreSQL
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closes in 3 months

Office hours for new engineering managers: payments infrastructure and Go

Topics
payments infrastructure, idempotency, Java
Format
Formal advisor role
Terms
Open to discuss
Capacity
A few async reviews a month
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Seed to Series A teams

24 years of payments infrastructure. Small equity or paid hours - flexible.

Nashville, TN · remote OKidempotencyjavapostgresql
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Experience

  1. Director of Engineering
    Apr 2023 - Present
    Cloudflare · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Nashville, TN
    • Grew the payments platform team from 4 to 31 engineers.
    • Moved 74% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Built the experimentation framework 6 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  2. Principal Engineer
    Nov 2020 - Apr 2023
    Reddit · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Nashville, TN
    • Led or co-led 26 investments, 5 of them now at Series B or later.
  3. Senior Engineering Manager
    Jul 2019 - Nov 2020
    Chewy · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Nashville, TN
    • Wrote the PostgreSQL service that now handles 70 million requests a day.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 25 minutes to under 2.
  4. Senior Engineering Manager
    Jul 2016 - Jul 2019
    Coinbase · 3 yr · Full-time · Nashville, TN
    • Took payment success rates from 95.4% to 97.4%.
    • Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 45% in two quarters.
  5. Engineering Manager
    Nov 2014 - Jul 2016
    PayPal · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Nashville, TN
    • Moved 72% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

  1. University of Wisconsin–Madison
    BS, Electrical Engineering
    1998 - 2002

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