**Matthew Chapman**  
chapmancac@gmail.com | 339-933-3997 | [github.com/chapmanm3](http://github.com/chapmanm3) | mattchapman.tech

**Skills:** Typescript, React, Next.js, Node.js, HTML, CSS, Remix, React Query, Prisma, Zod, Neon (Postgres), Vercel, PostHog, Neovim, Claude Code, AI-Assisted Development

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**Work Experience**

**Founding / Lead Engineer, Stealth Startup (Consumer SaaS)**  
Remote, US | *May 2025 – Present*

- Sole engineer responsible for all technical decisions, architecture, and development of a consumer SaaS product built on Next.js, React, and Node.js.
- Established full infrastructure from scratch including environment configuration (dev, preprod, prod), database administration (Neon/Postgres), and vendor selection (Vercel, Neon, PostHog).
- Integrated an AI assistant directly into the product, enhancing the core user experience with intelligent automation.
- Adopted an AI-first approach across the entire engineering workflow — development, code review, research, and rapid prototyping — enabling exceptionally fast shipping cycles.
- Prototype most features as POCs to gather stakeholder feedback early, iterating quickly to align product direction with business goals.
- Guide non-technical stakeholders in their code contributions, bridging the gap between engineering and the rest of the organization.
- Serve as on-call technical lead, debugging and resolving all critical issues especially ahead of client-facing presentations.

**Senior Software Engineer, DraftKings**  
Remote, US | *Sept. 2022 – Present (Promoted Jan. 2026)*

- Promoted to Senior Software Engineer and moved to a new AI-focused team within the Casino vertical, working to leverage AI to optimize casino operations including automated game testing.
- Championing an AI-first approach to software development — using AI tooling to rapidly build POCs, gather stakeholder feedback, and iterate on solutions.
- Web focused developer on a small team under the Casino Platform vertical responsible for feature development and upkeep of the DraftKings casino web offering (~1M requests per day).
- Lead developer of the Casino web app's lobby live dealer feature which polls for and displays near real-time data (available seats, player count, recent results) about live dealer games to users browsing the lobby.
- Lead developer of the Casino web app's Dynasty widget which displays users' accrued loyalty status and allows them to take actions related to their loyalty status — redeem points, visit the loyalty store, etc.
- Led cutover of large React-based repo from Webpack to Vite to improve bundle times and developer productivity while maintaining Webpack backwards compatibility to avoid disrupting ongoing development.
- Work with stakeholders (product, marketing, design) to design and implement new features and functionality.

**Full Stack Software Engineer II, Whoop**  
Boston, MA | *July 2021 – July 2022*

- Led effort to internationalize all major web properties in order to successfully launch in German-speaking regions in under 6 months.
- Transitioned Angular 1.8 login page to a fully internationalized React login page with Datadog monitoring (~7,000 views per day).
- Engineered and presented new testing standards to support internationalized codebases.
- Internationalized shared component library, allowing consumers of the components to utilize internationalization with no additional effort.

**Full Stack Software Engineer, 14Bis.aero**  
Burlington, MA | *November 2019 – July 2021*

- Lead of team responsible for client-facing web applications.
- Engineered solution to remove and rewrite old data visualization framework (Ant Design) with a new lighter and faster framework (Chart.js) to improve performance.
- Developed server-side export (CSV/Excel) functionality utilizing data streams to facilitate egress of 1 million+ rows of data in a performant manner.

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**Education**

**Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Engineering**  
Minor in Computer Science  
Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA  
*September 2015 – August 2019*