About
My name is Matthew Nanas. I am a self-taught software engineer who is passionate about high impact work and seeing meaningful results. I have an 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 can listen to and chat about anything so hit me up!
Experience
Software Engineer
LoVasco Consulting Group January 2025 - June 2026Modernized business operations through automation, the development of internal, and client facing tools. Built ETL pipelines to wrangle hundreds of thousands of investment records, statements, and other data types expediting manual workflows from weeks to minutes. Primarily worked on an internal consulting platform, centralizing insights and workflows between all business verticals. On the side, built applied AI programs
Software Engineer & Researcher
University of Maryland GEOG January 2023 - June 2025Contributed 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
SAIC June 2024 - December 2024Interned 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
Stealth December 2023 - December 2024Web3 Project
Research Intern
U.S Army Development Command (DEVCOM) Army Research Lab May 2023 - August 2023Assisted 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 Corporation August 2021 - December 2021Collaborated with senior Software Engineers on the INTOUCH product. Primarily focused on writing unit tests and React micro frontends.
Lead Software Developer
Sypion March 2020 - December 2020Lead backend development of auto-checkout software, primarily focused on acquiring coveted sneakers. Successfully Acquired by AMNotify in 2021.
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