Hi! I'm

Matt Strum.

 Developer.
   Entrepreneur.
     Lover of Change.
       Citizen of the World.

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Developer

Full-stack

Frontend.
Backend.
Hardware.

Operational Excellence

Continuous deployment.
Testing.
Security.
Oncall.

Experienced

Over a decade of tinkering.
@ Google, Amazon, and more.
Massive code bases.
End-to-end ownage.
Development ↘ Business value ↗

Entrepreneur

Constant Drive

Lemonade (well, candy) stand? ✔
App sells first year of university? ✔
Moved from enterprise to startup? ✔

First sells

Xtreme Journal System.
(RIP)
Keep your journal, however you want.
Open format, future friendly.
Type. Write. Images. Voice. Video. etc.

Arivale

(RIP) Left Amazon to join.
Take control of your health.
Avoid disease.

Plaid

Moved to Salt Lake City, joined a rocket ship.
Learned a lesson on 409A valuation.

Lover of Change

... of Location

Grew up...
All over the USA! Can barely count the states on two hands.

During university...
Provo → Vancouver, Canada → Provo → Salt Lake City (SLC) → Seoul, South Korea → SLC → Boston → SLC → NYC → SLC

The Ultimate Switch-up...
Brigham Young University → University of Utah

Graduated and lived...
Seattle → SLC

... of Employment

Until University...
Candy stand → Mowing lawns → Air Force Research Laboratories

During university...
Self → BYU Marriott School of Business Web Team → University of Utah Flux Research Group → Raytheon BBN Technologies → Google

Graduated and...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) → Arivale → Plaid → Amazon

... of Interests

Instruments
Voice → Piano → Violin → Trombone → Guitar → Ukulele

Sports
Soccer → Baseball → Tennis → Cross Country

Languages
English (duh) → French → Chinese → Korean

... of Technology

Languages
TI-Basic → C++ → C# (w/ ASPX, HTML, and CSS) → ColdFusion → ActionScript → C → Verilog → VHDL → Java → Assembly → Python → (plain old) JavaScript → TypeScript

User experiences
Command line → Windows applications → Web pages → Mobile apps → Voice

Citizen of the World

Well-traveled

Caribbean → India → New Zealand → Italy → Greece → France → England
→ ? ? ?

Korea

Holds a special place in my ♥.
Learned 한글(Hangeul) and speak semi-fluently.
Lived in Seoul and traveled the country for a year.
Lover of Korean food, movies, dramas, music, etc.
Co-founded The Korean Wiki Project,
to help others learn Korean.
3K+ users, 2M+ visits
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