Matthew C.
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Erik Pöhler
Matthew is an expert eCommerce and PHP developer. He is a good technical communicator with plenty of experience liaising directly with project stake holders and solution architects. We worked together in Mexico for over a year on an complex ERP integration and Payment Gateway implementations. His extended knowledge in Software Architecture, Design Patterns, eCommerce Business Processes and Technologies in general, make him a very valuable team member. I valued his professional work ethics, humor and honesty - which made him stand out from his mexican collegues.
Marcos Penhos
One of the best individuals I have ever met. With a great sense of responsibility and dedication. He helped Pengo on its beginnings building the roots of the company. We will always be grateful to him and he has an open opportunity to come back to the Pengo's team.
Erik Pöhler
Matthew is an expert eCommerce and PHP developer. He is a good technical communicator with plenty of experience liaising directly with project stake holders and solution architects. We worked together in Mexico for over a year on an complex ERP integration and Payment Gateway implementations. His extended knowledge in Software Architecture, Design Patterns, eCommerce Business Processes and Technologies in general, make him a very valuable team member. I valued his professional work ethics, humor and honesty - which made him stand out from his mexican collegues.
Marcos Penhos
One of the best individuals I have ever met. With a great sense of responsibility and dedication. He helped Pengo on its beginnings building the roots of the company. We will always be grateful to him and he has an open opportunity to come back to the Pengo's team.
Erik Pöhler
Matthew is an expert eCommerce and PHP developer. He is a good technical communicator with plenty of experience liaising directly with project stake holders and solution architects. We worked together in Mexico for over a year on an complex ERP integration and Payment Gateway implementations. His extended knowledge in Software Architecture, Design Patterns, eCommerce Business Processes and Technologies in general, make him a very valuable team member. I valued his professional work ethics, humor and honesty - which made him stand out from his mexican collegues.
Marcos Penhos
One of the best individuals I have ever met. With a great sense of responsibility and dedication. He helped Pengo on its beginnings building the roots of the company. We will always be grateful to him and he has an open opportunity to come back to the Pengo's team.
Erik Pöhler
Matthew is an expert eCommerce and PHP developer. He is a good technical communicator with plenty of experience liaising directly with project stake holders and solution architects. We worked together in Mexico for over a year on an complex ERP integration and Payment Gateway implementations. His extended knowledge in Software Architecture, Design Patterns, eCommerce Business Processes and Technologies in general, make him a very valuable team member. I valued his professional work ethics, humor and honesty - which made him stand out from his mexican collegues.
Marcos Penhos
One of the best individuals I have ever met. With a great sense of responsibility and dedication. He helped Pengo on its beginnings building the roots of the company. We will always be grateful to him and he has an open opportunity to come back to the Pengo's team.
Credentials
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Certified Developer Plus
MagentoApr, 2015- Nov, 2024 -
1Z0-803 Java SE 7 Programmer I
OracleNov, 2014- Nov, 2024 -
Zend Certified Engineer (PHP 5.3)
Zend TechnologiesJul, 2012- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Hello Molly
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Australia
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Retail
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1 - 100 Employee
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CTO
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Sep 2017 - Present
I helped navigate Hello Molly through complex operational and technological challenges. Notable milestones include:* Overhauling warehouse logistics and reducing operational inefficiencies by implementing an enterprise WMS and Golang microservices* Implementing a CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins and Kubernetes to improve production redundancy and promote scalability* Building a strong foundation for bespoke data-driven initiatives using a variety of AWS services* Migrating 8 years of legacy Magento 1 EE code to Magento 2 without breaking operational dependencies and processesAs CTO I have also invested a lot of time in aligning the company's technological choices with consideration of commercial trajectory and allocated budget.
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Harris Partners
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Advertising Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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CTO
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Jul 2016 - Sep 2017
At Harris Partners, my role was a mix of hands-on ideation, strategy and execution. Among my highlights, I consulted for an international hotel chain where I led a team to strategically improve customer engagement and revenue by rebuilding the reservations portal in Django and Angular with clear testable user journeys. I spent my last few months in Harris setting up the tech stack for a superannuation startup. At Harris Partners, my role was a mix of hands-on ideation, strategy and execution. Among my highlights, I consulted for an international hotel chain where I led a team to strategically improve customer engagement and revenue by rebuilding the reservations portal in Django and Angular with clear testable user journeys. I spent my last few months in Harris setting up the tech stack for a superannuation startup.
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acidgreen
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Australia
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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E-commerce Web Engineer
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Mar 2015 - Jul 2016
At Acidgreen, I specialized in custom Magento and OroCrm development. I worked onsite with clients providing strategic e-commerce development consulting services where I often collaborated closely with client in-house developer teams. At Acidgreen I also imparted my knowledge of test-driven development and e2e integration testing practices to the agency. At Acidgreen, I specialized in custom Magento and OroCrm development. I worked onsite with clients providing strategic e-commerce development consulting services where I often collaborated closely with client in-house developer teams. At Acidgreen I also imparted my knowledge of test-driven development and e2e integration testing practices to the agency.
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BrandMe
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Mexico
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Technology, Information and Media
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1 - 100 Employee
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Web Engineer
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Oct 2013 - Aug 2015
I was the lead developer and co-founder of BrandMe, a crowd marketing company located in Mexico City. BrandMe connects prominent social media content creators with businesses as part of a modern marketing strategy service leveraging the public web service API’s of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. I built the platform entirely on open source technology and REST-centric to facilitate scaling. I was the lead developer and co-founder of BrandMe, a crowd marketing company located in Mexico City. BrandMe connects prominent social media content creators with businesses as part of a modern marketing strategy service leveraging the public web service API’s of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. I built the platform entirely on open source technology and REST-centric to facilitate scaling.
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Dafiti
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Brazil
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Retail Apparel and Fashion
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior E-commerce Developer
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Feb 2012 - Nov 2014
While working for Rocket, I was allocated to fast fashion ventures in Latin America. There I was responsible for developing and deploying Rocket’s bespoke e-commerce PHP platform to ventures within the region. Notable achievements include:* Integrating the global TNS Gateway payment platform, collaborating closely with TNS/American Express and major LATAM banks* Developing a widely adopted and extensible rules-based Python algorithm to minimize fraud* Integrating Netsuite in Mexico as a first adopter of the service. The project involved many unique considerations including intelligent data mapping and a custom messaging broker to efficiently manage routing bottlenecks and race conditions present in Netsuite’s cloud ecosystem at the time* Developing marketplace integrations. I created an abstract interface for meeting challenges such as how to move large quantities of inventory and sales data in real-time between the sites and marketplaces including MercadoLibre and Linio
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Pengo
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Mexico
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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E-commerce Web Engineer
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Feb 2010 - Feb 2012
I was the first hire and eventual CTO of Pengo Stores, a digital agency specialising in Magento e-commerce development. I grew the technical team to around 25 developers over 2 years and actively managed and contributed code to over 25 projects from Mexico and the US during my time. I was the first hire and eventual CTO of Pengo Stores, a digital agency specialising in Magento e-commerce development. I grew the technical team to around 25 developers over 2 years and actively managed and contributed code to over 25 projects from Mexico and the US during my time.
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Education
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2000 - 2003
Western Sydney University
Bachelor Degree
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