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Hi, I'm Matt

Product Engineer

Cornell Tech CS MEng graduate building and shipping full stack applications. I'm bridging engineering and product design to turn complex systems into intuitive user experiences.

Matthew Shapiro
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Technologies I Use

TypeScript
TypeScript
JavaScript
JavaScript
Python
Python
SQL
SQL
HTML
HTML
CSS
CSS
Java
Java
Ruby
Ruby
Swift
Swift
C
C
TypeScript
TypeScript
JavaScript
JavaScript
Python
Python
SQL
SQL
HTML
HTML
CSS
CSS
Java
Java
Ruby
Ruby
Swift
Swift
C
C
Next.js
Next.js
React & React Native
React & React Native
TypeScript & Node.js
TypeScript & Node.js
FastAPI
FastAPI
Tailwind CSS
Tailwind CSS
PostgreSQL / Redis
PostgreSQL / Redis
RESTful APIs & GraphQL
RESTful APIs & GraphQL
Authentication & Security (OAuth / JWT)
Authentication & Security (OAuth / JWT)
PyTorch & Scikit-learn
PyTorch & Scikit-learn
RAG Architecture
RAG Architecture
LLM Orchestration & Agents (LangChain, MCP)
LLM Orchestration & Agents (LangChain, MCP)
Vector Databases (Pinecone / pgvector)
Vector Databases (Pinecone / pgvector)
Fine-Tuning & Transfer Learning
Fine-Tuning & Transfer Learning
Data Science (Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib)
Data Science (Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib)
Statistical Modeling (Regression, Clustering)
Statistical Modeling (Regression, Clustering)
Context & Prompt Engineering
Context & Prompt Engineering
AWS (Lambda, S3, EC2)
AWS (Lambda, S3, EC2)
Docker & Containerization
Docker & Containerization
CI/CD Pipelines (GitHub Actions)
CI/CD Pipelines (GitHub Actions)
Vercel & Cloud Hosting
Vercel & Cloud Hosting
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
Automated Testing (Jest, PyTest, RTL)
Automated Testing (Jest, PyTest, RTL)
Browser Automation (Playwright, Selenium)
Browser Automation (Playwright, Selenium)
Git & Version Control
Git & Version Control

Education

Cornell Tech Logo

Cornell Tech

M.Eng. in Computer Science

date2025 – 2026

Focus Areas:

Applied Machine Learning, Data Science, HCI

Colgate University Logo

Colgate University

B.A. in Computer Science

date2021 – 2025

Core Coursework:

Software Engineering, Database Systems, NLP, Algorithms & Data Structures


Experience

Atlantic Group

Atlantic Group

Product Engineer

locationNew York, NYdateMay 2026 – Present

Leading the end-to-end product lifecycle for internal recruiting tools from requirements discovery to full-stack development, cloud deployment, and user adoption.

Johnson & Johnson

Johnson & Johnson

Platform Operations Engineer Intern

locationTitusville, NJdateSummer 2025

Designed, built, and deployed a GenAI support agent using LLMs, RAG architecture, and vector databases.

Principal Financial Group

Principal Financial Group

Full Stack Software Engineer Intern

locationCharlotte, NCdateSummer 2024

Developed and migrated full stack applications to the cloud utilizing AWS, Next.js, TypeScript, and CI/CD DevOps deployment techniques.

Bridgify

Bridgify

Back End Developer Intern

locationTel Aviv, ISdateSummer 2023

Utilized Python and AWS to efficiently retrieve and process data from multiple sources, optimizing data handling and storage throughout the ETL pipeline.

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Featured Projects

EchoFeed: AI Multimodal Podcast Engine

iOS app converting saved short-form video content into personalized podcasts and RAG-backed coaching chat via Gemini Vision, Celery/Redis async video pipelines, and Gemini TTS.

FastAPIPythonPostgreSQLReact NativeGemini APIRedisCelery
EchoFeed: AI Multimodal Podcast Engine

Kidney Transplant Medical RAG System

End-to-end clinical Q&A pipeline combining FAISS vector search and grounded LLM generation over clinical guidelines, benchmarked across 90 safety, coverage, and faithfulness metrics.

PythonFAISSGemini APIRAGLLM Evaluation
Kidney Transplant Medical RAG System

RetinaLiteNet: Medical Segmentation

Hybrid CNN-Transformer architecture built in PyTorch for high-precision retinal analysis, reaching a 0.755 Dice score and 90% classification accuracy.

PyTorchTransformersComputer VisionPython
RetinaLiteNet: Medical Segmentation

Next-Query Predictive Search Engine

Comparative sequence modeling engine utilizing fine-tuned T5 transformers to predict search intent, outperforming scratch-trained baseline models by 15x.

T5 TransformerNLPFine-TuningSearch Systems
Next-Query Predictive Search Engine

Automated Content Moderation Pipeline

Neural network moderation service classifying toxic language with 92% accuracy, optimized for low-latency batch inferences and automated filtering.

TensorFlowFastAPISupervised LearningPython
Automated Content Moderation Pipeline

GameShelf: Video Game Ranking SaaS

Full-stack web application featuring user authentication, custom collection management, and responsive interfaces powered by a relational database backend.

Ruby on RailsJavaScriptTailwind CSSPostgreSQL
GameShelf: Video Game Ranking SaaS
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