Matt Stowe

Senior Director of Engineering

Expanded leadership responsibilities after the acquisition of LearnPlatform to oversee a 40+ person, six-team engineering organization across multiple product lines. I successfully integrated people, platforms, and processes across the company, fostering cohesion and driving innovation.

• Unified previously siloed teams, enabling critical data capabilities for customers which had been unattainable for over a decade.
• Drove the strategic development of a centralized API gateway and partner integration suite, expanding the product ecosystem and enabling critical connectivity with customer platforms.
• Spearheaded AI strategy by leveraging AWS Bedrock for multilingual translations during a global product launch and applying LLMs to accelerate engineering productivity, including code generation, refactoring, and PR review.
• Championed a company-wide, common UI framework to unify the user experience and provide a centralized solution for meeting institutional accessibility requirements.
• Created an engineering culture centered on trust, accountability, and inclusivity, resulting in top-quartile engagement scores. Maintained 90%+ retention in global teams.

Vice President of Engineering

Led engineering for a SaaS education technology platform. By collecting and analyzing over 2 billion new data points per week, the platform enabled school districts to make evidence-based decisions, quickly and cost-effectively improving student outcomes. I directed all aspects of delivery including full-stack development, data engineering, quality assurance, infrastructure, technical customer support, and systems reliability and uptime.

• Delivered first iOS product launch for LearnPlatform, expanding K-12 market reach.
• Scaled platform architecture and data pipelines to process billions of weekly events, significantly improving performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Modernized engineering practices and processes in preparation for acquisition, positioning the organization as a mature, scalable asset.
• Guided 3 cross-functional teams through a 3-month due diligence process, streamlining coordination and ensuring the successful and timely closure of the acquisition.

Vice President of Engineering

Led engineering for Reel, an internal SaaS mobile delivery product. I oversaw the platform teams responsible for building the core frameworks and services that empowered over 10 product development teams.

• Built and scaled a global full-stack engineering organization across 4 time zones, enabling a 24/7 development and support model.
• Instituted modern engineering roadmaps and DevOps practices, including IaC and test automation tooling, providing clear strategic direction and accelerating product delivery.
• Championed Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices which significantly improved platform maturity and reliability.
• Established a formal RFC and architectural board to drive collaborative, metrics-based decisions and foster a culture of resilient engineering.

Principal Advisor

Steered the technical vision and strategic direction for a high-volume API platform that was the central nervous system for all customer-facing products, serving over 40 billion requests weekly. I built trust across teams to drive the adoption of product-driven development practices.

• Partnered with multiple product teams to adopt GraphQL and a consolidated data schema for 15M+ articles, modernizing API access and accelerating product development.
• Architected a robust cloud operations model with multi-region workloads, achieving near-zero downtime during extreme traffic spikes (10-100x) for a high-volume platform.
• Redefined the delivery pipeline to enable multiple daily feature releases, significantly increasing engineering agility and time-to-market.

Chief Technology Officer

Provided the technology vision and led all engineering, DevOps, and QA operations for an award-winning news site. I was responsible for delivering the platform that fueled significant business growth and audience expansion.

• Modernized the entire technology stack with a strategic cloud migration, implementing incident processes and automation to improve reliability and scalability.
• Built and led a new R&D practice, which fostered a culture of innovation and collaboration with editorial and product teams to prototype new solutions.
• Spearheaded the adoption of Agile methodologies to break down silos, cutting time-to-market by 40% and contributing to a 150% growth in users.
• Led a major technology overhaul that reduced infrastructure costs by 10% and improved UI performance by 25%.

Director of Engineering

Led architecture, development, and operations for a next-generation, custom content management platform that powered dynamic content creation and publishing across 20 major Condé Nast brands. Oversaw a 20+ person global engineering team and drove large-scale modernization initiatives spanning infrastructure, tooling, and development practices.

• Replaced a fragmented legacy Content Management System with a unified platform designed for component reuse, accelerating brand launches and standardizing content workflows across the organization.
• Collaborated with product, design, and editorial stakeholders to align platform capabilities with evolving digital publishing needs, supporting millions of daily users.
• Orchestrated a major modernization effort that migrated the entire stack from on-premises hosting to a cloud-based architecture, improving scalability, uptime, and deployment flexibility.
• Drove a full SDLC modernization, introducing developer-focused tooling, Git-based distributed version control, CI/CD automation, comprehensive automated testing, and Agile practices that unified workflows and increased productivity across globally distributed teams.

Principal Engineer

A Principal Engineer and member of the consulting leadership team that was responsible for technical execution and management of custom-built software solutions for clients across the healthcare, legal, and finance industries.

• Led project delivery for engagements valued at $750K-$3M yearly, managing all aspects of technical execution, architecture, and client requirements.
• Pioneered the adoption of Agile methodologies through direct coaching of engineering teams, regular sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and iterative retrospectives which increased transparency and maintained project timelines.
• Partnered with client technology leaders to translate business goals into robust technical architectures, delivering enterprise-grade, multi-tiered systems in Java and .NET that emphasized scalability, security, and maintainability.

University of Virginia

Certified Public Accountant