Matt Rigg

Matt Rigg

IT Systems Administrator

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Lead engineer building climate tech solutions | AWS veteran

  • Education

    • Terra.do

      2024 - 2024
      Learning for Climate Action

      A deep dive into the full climate change landscape. A 12-week climate education and solutions bootcamp.

    • University of Washington

      2012 - 2014
      Bachelor of Science - BS Information Technology- Systems

      Activities and Societies: GreyHat Hackers Group, Volunteer Services Summa Cum Laude

  • Experience

    • Competition Specialties

      May 2011 - Jun 2014
      IT Systems Administrator

      Systems Administrator for a logistics company. Redesigned, and maintained a new and modern corporate infrastructure. Built and maintained dozens of container-based services, resulting in higher availability and better tooling for employees.Completely rebuilt the company's eCommerce website using modern technologies and patterns to ensure long-term scalability.

    • Amazon

      Jun 2014 - Aug 2021

      Senior Front End Engineer for Amazon Care - Healthcare built around you. A benefit for Amazon employees and their families in the Seattle area. Built and launched Alexa Blueprints - Create your own personal Alexa skills and responses in minutes - Make custom party games, household lists, family stories, and more - just fill in the blanks. Lead Developer for the AWS Escalation and Event Management team. Founded and developed a Tier-1 incident management service that has become integral to hundreds of teams across AWS.

      • Senior Front End Engineer, Amazon Care

        Sept 2019 - Aug 2021
      • Front-End Engineer, Alexa Blueprints

        Oct 2017 - Sept 2019
      • Lead Full-Stack Web Developer

        Jun 2014 - Oct 2017
    • Noom Inc.

      Aug 2021 - May 2022
      Lead Front End Engineer

      Lead engineer for international expansion at Noom. Drove multiple company-wide security campaigns and codebase unification projects, dropping 29k lines of maintainable code. Designed several foundational improvements across Noom’s app infrastructure, improving go-to-market speed for new countries by over 400%.

    • TIME

      May 2022 - Nov 2023
      Senior Software Engineer

      A TIME-incubated startup focused on creating a marketplace that offers portfolios of high-quality carbon offset projects. Designed to help companies accelerate their path to net-zero and nature-positive. Advised by leading scientists and climate leaders, including Johan Rockström, Mark Kenber, and Katharine Hayhoe.Website: https://co2.com

    • Building Decarbonization Coalition

      Feb 2024 - now
      Lead Engineer

      Leading the technology-driven transformation of building decarbonization.

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • AutoScaling Subject Matter Expert (SME)

      Amazon Web Services
      Jul 2015
    • AWS Certified Solutions Architect

      Amazon Web Services
      Oct 2016
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  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Matt Rigg
      Summa Cum Laude - Jun 2014
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Frontend Engineer

      Issued by Washington (WA) COVID Vaccine Finder - COVIDWA.COM on Feb 2021
      Washington (WA) COVID Vaccine Finder - COVIDWA.COMAssociated with Matt Rigg