My name is Matthew Nanas. I am a self-taught software engineer who is passionate about driving a positive impact and seeing real results through my work. I have an educational background in general engineering (early college program) and information science (Bachelor's from UMD). From personal passion projects to startups, to non-profits, to institutional research and development, to the federal government, to a Fortune 500, to small companies -- I've experienced it all through internship, part-time, full-time, and night and weekend work. I love to geek out and learn just about everything so if you'd love to chat reach out to me.
Experience
Software Engineer
LoVasco Consulting GroupJanuary 2025 - Present
Modernizing business workflows and practices through the development of both internal and client facing tools. Built ETL pipelines for thousands of investment data and a working on a consulting platform for analysis and CRM.
Software Engineer & Researcher
University of Maryland GEOGJanuary 2023 - June 2025
Contributed to The EASIER Data Initiative under Dr. Taylor Oshan. R&D decentralized technology including Ethereum, Filecoin, and IPFS to store, retrieve, and interface with Geospatial Data (satellite imagery) stored on the dWeb. Collaborated with Astral under The Decentralized Geospatial Collaborative to curate a protocol for proof of location on the Ethereum Attestation Service.
Data Engineer Intern
SAICJune 2024 - December 2024
Interned under the Space & National Intelligence Business unit. Developed an ETL pipeline to embed RFI/RFP documents and a RAG application suited for offline edge-devices to quickly retrieve critical information in classified environments. Developed an interface to prompt a corpus of documents embedded in Elasticsearch and generate insights between entities in a Neo4J database.
Co-Founder and Member of Technical Staff
StealthDecember 2023 - December 2024
Web3 Project
Research Intern
U.S Army Development Command (DEVCOM) Army Research LabMay 2023 - August 2023
Assisted the research of two Human-AI collaboration studies investigating the optimal ways to communicate robust insights generated by AI to military personnel during intense scenarios that require rapid decision making.
Software Engineer Intern
Top Down Systems CorporationAugust 2021 - December 2021
Collaborated with senior Software Engineers on the INTOUCH product. Primarily focused on writing unit tests and React micro frontends.
Lead Software Developer
SypionMarch 2020 - December 2020
Lead backend development of auto-checkout software, primarily focused on acquiring coveted sneakers. Successfully Acquired by AMNotify in 2021.
