Open to Staff, Principal & Architect roles — remote
/* Staff / Principal Software Engineer */
A Nashville-based staff engineer with nearly 20 years across distributed web application engineering, architecture, and leadership. I focus on true full-stack ownership: from domain models and APIs to the UI, plus the agentic tooling that helps a team move faster.
➜ ~ whoami
matthew_marcus
➜ ~ cat profile.json
{
"role": "Staff / Principal Software Engineer",
"experience": "~20 years",
"location": "Nashville, TN",
"mode": "Remote · United States",
"veteran": true
}➜ ~ ls ./stack
Node.js React TypeScript Next.js AI / Agentic Engineering
➜ ~
A few numbers from the last two decades, all real and all on the record.
Where I spend my time and where I'm most useful to a team.
01.
Claude Code with MCP across company systems, custom Claude skills where MCP doesn't exist, and fully automated agentic PR review pipelines.
02.
Strictly typed backends with clear boundaries: NestJS + Prisma, Go/Echo web services, runtime-validated contracts, and SOLID design.
03.
End-to-end features from API contract to accessible, polished UI, with instrumentation for production debugging.
04.
Rebuilding fragile systems while they stay live (swapping the engine mid-flight) without stopping feature delivery.
05.
SSO, OAuth2 and TFA via Clerk, JWT/JWK payment flows, CSRF/XSS hardening, and white-label multi-tenant data models.
06.
Big-data analytics UIs on a GPU RDBMS, D3-driven dashboards, and real-time full-duplex data via sockets.
GoodParty.org · Mar 2024 – 2026
End-to-end architectural rebuild of an open-source platform that gives independent political candidates scalable campaign infrastructure.
OpenLoop · 2026
The company's first fully automated agentic PR review workflow: Claude via AWS Bedrock, with review comments and fix flows run through GitHub Actions.
GoodParty.org · 2024 – 2025
Independently migrated a ~90,000-line Next.js JavaScript codebase to TypeScript in about two months using LLM agents.
Personal · Open Source · Sep 2026 – Present
Reverse-engineered the encrypted .hcf tune format for a 1996 F-350 7.3L Power Stroke Hydra chip, then built a web tune editor to change shift points and idle speed and save a new, flashable tune.
Personal · Open Source · Jun 2026
A NotebookLM-style app: upload documents, chat with grounded RAG answers, and generate studio artifacts such as summaries, mind maps, quizzes, flashcards and reports.
Personal · Open Source · Jun 2026
Detects when upstream Google Cloud docs change, traces which GCP certification practice questions are affected, and proposes AI fixes for human review.
Pinned on GitHub: side projects, agentic experiments, and the GoodParty.org platform I led.
RavenHursT /
Tune files, .hcf format analysis and a web tune editor for a 1996 F-350 7.3L Power Stroke on a Hydra chip.
RavenHursT /
NotebookLM-style app: upload docs, chat with grounded RAG answers, and generate summaries, mind maps, quizzes and more.
RavenHursT /
Self-healing content system for GCP certification source documents.
RavenHursT /
CAD model review tool: a Next.js + NestJS + tRPC monorepo with a React Three Fiber viewer.
thegoodparty /
NestJS API for goodparty.org: the strictly typed backend I architected and led.
thegoodparty /
TypeScript SDK for the gp-api, giving shared, end-to-end type-safe API contracts.
Jul 2026 – Present
Led the refactor of an acquired single-tenant stack to multi-tenant white labeling (data model, API and React UI, with Retool for admin) in ~3 months with two other engineers
Mar 2026 – May 2026
Led the platform team on cross-functional platform features
Mar 2024 – Mar 2026
Architected and led a full backend rebuild from Sails.js to TypeScript + NestJS + Prisma + Zod, with SST/GitHub Actions/Playwright CI/CD
Oct 2018 – Apr 2023
Championed, architected and built a Go/Echo web services layer over Apache Thrift for a GPU-RDBMS analytics platform
Feb 2021 – Nov 2022
Principal engineer and architect for cluster.byheart.com on Next.js and GCP, including cold-start tuning and Segment/Klaviyo/Contentful pipelines
Apr 2018 – Sep 2018
From managers, peers, and engineers I've mentored.
Matthew is one of those engineers who knows how to spot the problems other people are overlooking in a plan. He seems to see around corners and I'm glad to have had him on my team. If you need someone you can count on to solve big problems and never complain about it being unfair - Matthew's your guy.
Sam Hughes
CTO / Fractional CTO · Ex-MSFT, Ex-GoDaddy
Matt is a highly skilled engineer, technical leader, and product-minded user champion. His leadership in technical vision, architectural direction, complex problem solving, and robust, maintainable code elevates the entire team. His intentional mentorship inspires the kind of hardcore skill-building that creates world-class engineers.
Nikao Hill
Software Engineer · Performance-Critical Services
His technical abilities far surpass most engineers that I've worked with in my career. This involves design, architecture, implementation and knowledge of libraries, frameworks etc. Overall, Matthew is a phenomenal engineer and its always a privilege working with him.
Anindo Mukherjee
Principal Engineer, Google Gemini Enterprise
/* currently available */
I'm open to remote Principal Software Engineer, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Staff Software Engineer and architect roles.