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Shammah Matasva

Senior Systems Software and Infrastructure Engineer

Summary

Systems software and infrastructure engineer leading teams and scaling secure, cost-efficient software across IoT, software-defined networking, cloud infrastructure and SaaS. Delivered $67M+ in annual cost savings, FedRAMP compliance, and CASA audit readiness working across AWS, GCP and bare metal infrastructure.

Experience

Software Engineer/Engineering Manager (Part-time)

May 2026 – Present

Amp Spot · Remote, United States

  • Led an infrastructure security compliance initiative to align with Cloud Application Security Assessment (CASA) audits.
  • Owned technical roadmap resulting in mobile (iOS and Android) app rebuild in eight weeks with a 60% increase in end-to-end test coverage.
  • Automated AWS cloud infrastructure provisioning, reducing time from a multi-day to a single-day process by adopting Infrastructure as Code via Terraform.
  • Hired and led a development team across web and mobile with 4 direct reports, conducting weekly 1:1s and early performance feedback, fast tracking them into SMEs for each product.
  • Migrated development from an external agency to an in-house full-stack team reducing month-to-month costs by 25%.

Lead Software Engineer

Mar 2025 – Sep 2025

Executive Elite Transport, LLC · Remote, United States

  • Designed cloud infrastructure on AWS and core Node.js backend service for transportation brokerage service from zero to one.
  • Led end-to-end system design via cross-functional collaboration with executives, operations teams and external stakeholders.
  • Led product delivery through Roadmap and Project Planning to successfully meet a six month delivery window and budget.
  • Directed three off-shore engineers through asynchronous delegation and established Agile processes for product delivery.

Software Development Engineer

Feb 2022 – Jan 2025

Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Seattle, WA, United States

  • Led deployment and launch of EC2 VPC networking services in three European Gov-cloud regions.
  • Improved DDoS mitigation time by re-architected high-throughput Java NAT mapping service to optimizing data paths.
  • Reduced logging costs by $5.6M/month (52%) by redesigning service-wide observability and CloudWatch telemetry.
  • Cut deployment cycles from 60 to under 30 days (50%) to align with FedRAMP compliance by re-engineering a distributed control plane streaming service and optimizing CI/CD pipelines, reducing the blast radius of deployment based failures.

Software Engineer

Aug 2021 – Feb 2022

Liniax Inc. (Client: Unilever R&D Labs) · Trumbull, CT, United States

  • Reduced authorization latency from 30 min to five sec (99%) by deploying cloud integrated IoT infrastructure and a C/GPIO-based access management system with a cross-platform UI built with Electron and React.
  • Led technical demos for executive leadership, securing executive buy-in for multi-lab rollout of IoT capabilities, and influencing future digitization initiatives.
  • Authored AWS SOP documentation to streamline infrastructure setup for new hires and standardized deployments.

Projects

PlayTicks

Nov 2025 – Present

playticks.com

  • Designed and shipped a productivity platform to digitize complex sports coaching workflows, replacing legacy manual processes with structured real-time data and video systems as a sole developer.
  • Architected a robust backend utilizing Python (FastAPI), Redis and PostgreSQL ensuring predictable performance and low-latency interactions combined with a Next.js client.
  • Utilized OpenAI Whisper for speech recognition and transcription workflows with VLMs for automated video clip analysis.

Education

Trine University

Aug 2025 – May 2026

Master of Science · Engineering/Industrial Management

Mercer University

Jan 2025 – Aug 2025

Master of Science · Business Analytics/Management Science

University of Bridgeport

Aug 2018 – Dec 2021

Bachelor of Science · Computer Science (Mathematics minor)

Skills

Programming Languages

Java, Python, C, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL, HCL

Frameworks & Tools

PostgreSQL, MongoDB, S3, Redis, LLMs, AI Automation Tools, Node.js, Next.js, React.js

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS, GCP, Terraform, IaC, Linux, SDN, Containerization, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Distributed Systems

Core Competencies

Roadmap and Project Planning, Operations Strategy, Team Leadership, Stakeholder Engagement, Agile Methodologies