Matthew Clower

Founder

Clower Music

2023 – Present

Chief Technology Officer

Treasure Financial

2021 – 2023 · 2 years

Chief Software Architect

WePay

2013 – 2021 · 8 years

Served in a high-profile leadership position to produce consistent standardized software products on behalf of this integrated payments provider that was acquired in 2017 by JPMorgan Chase in a deal valued at $400 Million.

• Engineered career development ecosystem for software engineers, improving retention and providing internal growth opportunities. Defined IC career ladder from apprentice to distinguished software engineer. Mentored and sponsored promotions for staff engineers, senior staff engineers, principal engineers, engineering managers, senior engineering managers, and directors of engineering.
• Established and served as owner of technical practices that transformed a single application architecture into a containerized microservice continuous delivery system accommodating 20,000x annual transaction volume.
• Built and maintained hiring, interviewing, and training practices that enabled a 2x growth rate for 4 consecutive years and 30x total organizational growth in 6 years.
• Designed financial reconciliation system which satisfied reporting requirements necessary to execute acquisition by a regulated bank and is positioned to accommodate 100x annual transaction volume.
• Led integration of software engineering and cultural practices with JPMorgan Chase to redesign career development, talent management, employee experience, compensation architecture and recruiting for tens of thousands of software engineers.

Founder, CTO & Board of Directors

WarpShare

2006 – 2012 · 6 years

Founded company to remunerate media content creators by leveraging online consumer activity. Defined business objectives and translated business objectives into technology vision. Drove development roadmap and created architectural infrastructure. Implemented initial product that validated and demonstrated core technologies.

• Designed and implemented core cross-platform technologies in C++, PHP and MySQL.
• Secured funding and presented technologies to investors and business partners.
• Invented and awarded patent for distributed network technology.
• Developed PHP interface for AWS.

Engineering Manager & Lead Software Engineer

Software Development Technologies

2002 – 2006 · 4 years

Managed off-shore development team to build core software product. Provided software development and training to clients including PepsiCo, WellPoint Health Systems, CalPERS, FedEx, Fidelity, Wells Fargo, and Southwest Airlines.

• Authored technical documentation and coursework for software development and test methodologies.
• Reengineered test center at CalPERS increasing productivity by 5x.
• Created platform at PepsiCo to test proprietary handheld inventory tracking hardware using TestQuest, TestDirector, WinRunner, and QTP/QC.
• Migrated WinRunner TSL Testing Framework IP to C libraries reducing maintenance while increasing performance and portability.

Independent Consultant, Volunteer

UCSF Brain Tumor Research Center

2005

Automated analysis of nucleotide sequences resulting in a 100x productivity gain.

Integrated Systems Security Officer

United States Army

1998 – 2002 · 4 years

Advised CID on computer security and cryptography. Maintained computer systems, security, and software.