Matthew Burkhard

About Matthew Burkhard

An accomplished Cloud Platform Leader with over 16 years of proven success in delivering technical solutions and providing business leadership. Expertise in architecting and developing large-scale cloud platforms, and a track record in managing and fostering the growth of high-performing development teams. Known for successfully guiding impactful products and features to market.Breadth of experience in diverse fields such as traffic technologies, audio/video, networking, and health/sleep tech translates into a deep understanding of technology\'s far-reaching impacts. This experience, spanning roles from developer and architect to manager, Director, and VP of Engineering, showcases a unique blend of technical strength and exceptional leadership acumen.Selected Accomplishments: Lead and architected industry-leading IoT Platform with 30+ million connected devices. Spearheaded full rewrite of existing backend platform, including hundreds of APIs across multiple services. Launched acclaimed IoT temperature sleep system and cloud platform; scaling to over 60k devices. Developed patented technology enabling AI-driven real-time temperature adjustments based on live sleep state data streamed from IoT sensors. Continually demonstrates leadership, impact, and influence on organizations and has been recognized through internal promotions throughout careerCore Competencies:Leadership: Strategic Planning, Project Management, Budgeting, Hiring and Training, Culture BuildingTeams: SDLC, Process Improvement, Hiring and TrainingTech: AWS (IoT Core, Lambda, ECS, EC2, Elasticache, S3, SQS, DynamoDB, Timestream, Cognito, CloudWatch, Athena), Python, Terraform, NodeJS, Golang, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, Jenkins, C#, MSSQL

Experience

1. Technical Director, Applied Ai

   IRALOGIX

   Dec 2024 — Present · Charlotte, NC, US

   Single-handedly led the transition of customer care VoIP/Call Center technology from proprietary tech to AWS Connect, resulting in an estimated savings of ~$100k/year.• Implemented infrastructure as code (Python Boto3) for full deployment through code, establishing clean deployment pipelines from development to production.• Integrated multiple technologies to extend call center capabilities, including 24/7 AI-first Q&A agents and backend sentiment and translation for customer contact.• Led the team in the deployment of the Workplace Retirement Plan Portal, a fully digital, white-labeled platform modernizing employer-sponsored IRAs through automation, real-time self-service, and seamless data handling.

Education

• Clemson University

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science

  2010

• University of Fukui

  Study Abroad, Computer Science / Japanese

Skills

• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Microsoft Office
• Software Development
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Project Management
• Mouse Handling
• Business Process Improvement
• Product Development
• Product Marketing
• Competitive Analysis
• Process Improvement
• Integration
• Electronics
• Team Leadership
• Product Management
• Program Management
• Straight Talk
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership