Resume

Matthew Campbell

Senior Software Engineer

Strategic team lead and senior software engineer with experience driving innovation and building high-performing teams at automotive, mobile gaming, and consulting companies. Develop and present technical topics to C-suite executives, stakeholders, and developer teams. Experience with homelabs, self-hosting, local AI models, and infrastructure experiments. Seeking a developer relations engineer role to own and improve the developer experience across an expanding product portfolio.

Based in Austin, TX

Current lane Motorsports systems Track record Games, platforms, teams My brag sheet Stuff I've built

Experience

Apr 2024 - Present Austin, TX

General Motors , Motorsports Divisions

Senior Software Engineer

Maintain, update, and adapt complex motorsports focused inventory management and configuration tool supporting 20+ race teams across 5 race series, leading to onboarding of the Cadillac Formula 1 team.
Design transition of application from cloud hosted to containerized workflow (Kubernetes), enabling track side hosting and accelerating deployment from 1 hour to 3-4 minutes.
Implement new data transformation features to enhance primary source of truth for the configuration of the Cadillac Formula 1 cars, delivering all features ahead of critical deadlines.
Rewrite Cadillac configuration application from TypeScript to C#, reducing track operations by 20%.
Lead the team on new AI workflow development and novel uses of AI agents, saving team 200+ hours monthly.

Jun 2023 - Mar 2024 Austin, TX

Scientific Games

Senior Software Engineer

Developed strategic vision and led architectural changes (PHP 7.4 to PHP 8.2) to mature app, modernizing backend, reducing tech debt, and enabling new technologies to be used with no disruption in live gameplay.
Designed proof of concept to transition developers to event driven architecture on .NET, enhancing integrations, iteration speed, stability, and feature development capabilities (matchmaking systems, new live event systems).

Oct 2017 - Apr 2023 Austin, TX

Playstudios

Team Lead & Senior Software Engineer

Led a team of 6 software engineers (backend, iOS, Android, Unity) to manage PlayAWARDS ecosystem (loyalty platform, in game rewards, authentication, advertising), achieving 100% employee retention.
Architected hybrid solution (on-prem, Azure) with 2 product managers and multidisciplinary teams, reducing onboarding by 30-40%.
Designed systems in Azure to allow for 2 existing applications to create SDKs for new applications and simplify integrations into PLAYSTUDIOS' ecosystems, unifying rewards and authentication solution and consolidating toolsets.
Developed new in-house currency reward system and new features for 3 different games, increasing player retention and eliminating SaaS vendor ($60K+ annual savings).
Collaborated with multiple teams and integrated third party APIs, maximizing customer engagement and tracking.
Maintained, refactored, and architected the redesign and all new shop system features, enhancing player targeting, boosting revenue per user by an average of 20%, and leading to implementation of new shop features in 2 other games.

May 2013 - Oct 2017 Austin, TX

CGI

Software Consultant

Designed and developed new functionality on the Enterprise Gateway (Java, XML, JSPX), a secure messaging and document sharing platform.
Fixed existing production defects and developed new features requested client (JP Morgan Chase).
Performed all phases of development life cycle: analysis, design, code, unit test, system test, user acceptance, implementation, and production support on all new features added to the project.
Assisted with the transition of the project from SOA 11g to SOA 12c and within WebLogic platform.

Leadership Experience & Activities

Dec 2016 - Dec 2020

Battleshopper

Owner & Operator

Built, owned, and operated a full online retail store for a niche online trading card game.
Wrote platform using public APIs to algorithmically price every item for sale, allowing daily pricing updates.
Fostered loyal customer base and Discord community, leading to 0 chargebacks across 4 years.
Created a blog and sourced content creators to promote the store and sell cards.
Negotiated deals with multiple third-party content streamers to advertise on streams.
Ran and maintained the ASP.NET storefront using Bootstrap.

Sept 2025 - Present

Odomtr

Owner & Operator

Built, maintains, and updates an AI first car maintenance app for iOS and Android built in React Native with Convex.
Parses reports from mechanics, automatically scans receipts, and tracks maintenance records all from scanned documentation.
Allows for the tracking of all aspects of maintenance and fuel mileage without needing to do large amounts of data entry.

Mar 2019 - Present

Everyday Driver

Community Manager

Run and moderate the community Discord for the Everyday Driver YouTube channel and podcast.

Education

Auburn University, Bachelor of Software Engineering