{ "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsonresume/resume-schema/master/schema.json", "basics": { "name": "Matthew Perez", "label": "Forward Deployed Engineer", "email": "matthew@matthewperez.com", "url": "https://matthewperez.com", "summary": "Matthew Perez is a Forward Deployed Engineer: 20 years of client-facing video production (T-Mobile, broadcast, B2B) combined with a portfolio of self-built, production AWS web applications shipped solo: full-stack engineering, CDK infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and client-facing communication as one job.", "location": { "city": "Bellevue", "region": "WA", "countryCode": "US" } }, "work": [ { "name": "T-Mobile", "position": "AI Tooling & Process Engineer (stretch assignment)", "location": "Bellevue, WA", "startDate": "2025", "highlights": [ "Self-initiated stretch assignment alongside the senior video producer role: designs, builds, and operates the team's production AI systems, delivered entirely within enterprise IT constraints (no admin rights, managed hardware, restricted egress).", "Designed and shipped a production multi-lane LLM job system that non-technical teammates drive by dropping files into a shared folder: a stdlib-only Python supervisor (~720 lines) with a durable filesystem queue, WAL-mode SQLite ledger, two isolated worker lanes, crash recovery, and a 7-scenario sandbox test harness.", "Root-caused a silent-failure class in headless LLM orchestration (API errors surfacing with exit code 0, delivering error text to users as if it were real output); built envelope-error detection that converts these into legible failed jobs, locked in with a regression test.", "Replaced a discontinued paid captioning and voiceover vendor with a fully offline speech service (Whisper speech-to-text plus Kokoro ONNX text-to-speech) running on managed enterprise hardware with no cloud dependency and no per-user install.", "Authored two Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers integrating LLMs with Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro: TypeScript, Zod-validated schemas, file-based IPC to a CEP/ExtendScript runtime, with 43 tools validated against a live Premiere session.", "Designed a no-inbound-connection integration pattern adopted across 4+ agent projects: a host that polls SharePoint and replies via Power Automate, delivering agent workflows within enterprise egress restrictions and platform limits.", "Built and distributed an agentic chief-of-staff assistant adopted by colleagues, maintained through 4+ release cycles; its SME-review agent caught 2 critical defects on a live training deck before publication.", "Added a provenance layer to every AI job: SHA-256 hashes of inputs and outputs, prompt hash, and model ID recorded per job for auditability." ] }, { "name": "T-Mobile", "position": "Sr. Video Producer / Instructional Designer", "location": "Bellevue, WA", "startDate": "2018-06", "highlights": [ "One-man-band video producer for T-Mobile for Business: writes, lights, shoots, and edits video supporting business sales and operations for a 3,500+ person national sales organization.", "Built the business division's video studio from the ground up, including gear, computer equipment, and commercial-grade quick-turn delivery.", "Nominated for Winners Circle and PEAK Achievement awards in first year; selected for and graduated the NXTLVL management training program.", "Pandemic pivot: built a remote studio and trained field personnel and executives to film themselves effectively.", "Trained two video producers and an intern in editorial and motion-graphics best practices; currently mentoring three junior producers.", "Cross-functional alignment with department heads (Sales, Training, Product, Engineering, PM, Business Analysis, Marketing) and executive leadership, with data-driven iteration on video performance.", "Integrated AI tools into the video production pipeline (writing, storyboarding, concepting, editing workflows) starting in 2024, the on-ramp to the AI engineering stretch assignment above." ] }, { "name": "The Garrigan Lyman Group", "position": "Lead Video Producer / Creative Program Manager", "location": "Seattle, WA", "startDate": "2013-11", "endDate": "2018-06", "highlights": [ "Owned scoping, budgeting, scheduling, and executive production for all agency video projects from pitch to delivery, spanning broadcast, social, web, B2B, and live formats.", "Taco Del Mar brand revitalization: produced ten broadcast spots. Stores in the media-buy territory saw a 50% attendance surge, social engagement rose 450%, and website traffic doubled; won Best Restaurant Social Media Campaign at IAC 2017.", "Babolat 'Jack Sock for President' social campaign: produced the video series, which drove a large social response with sports and ad press mentions and became the most cost-efficient ad spend in the agency's 16-year Babolat relationship.", "Managed internal and freelance resourcing for GLG Studio, the agency's award-winning in-house production arm; wrote all video SOWs, estimates, and RFP responses, and negotiated vendor and stock-licensing rates.", "360-degree video / VR consultant for the agency, serving as DP, editor, animator, and writer as team needs required." ] }, { "name": "Solid State Media", "position": "Owner / Producer / Director", "location": "Seattle, WA + Los Angeles, CA", "startDate": "2008", "endDate": "2013", "highlights": [ "Founded and ran a corporate video production company, with clients including Microsoft, Nordstrom, and Seattle University.", "Built and scaled a freelance-artist roster to match production demands of any size." ] }, { "name": "Freelance", "position": "Producer / DP / Editor", "location": "Los Angeles, CA + Seattle, WA", "startDate": "2006", "endDate": "2013", "highlights": [ "Director of Photography for corporate and small-business clients, shooting DSLR, RED, Alexa, and Super16.", "Editor and motion-graphics artist for hire (Avid, Premiere, Final Cut Pro, After Effects); day player in G&E and camera departments on short and feature films in Hollywood; rental agent and warehouse tech at a North Hollywood G&E rental house.", "VMG/Studio 520 (Bellevue, 2012-13): producer/PM managing 30-40 concurrent creative projects for Microsoft, Verizon, T-Mobile, Intel, and AMD." ] } ], "education": [ { "institution": "Los Angeles Film School", "area": "Certificate of Immersion: Cinematography (major) / Editing (minor)", "startDate": "2006", "endDate": "2007" }, { "institution": "University of Washington", "area": "B.A., English Language & Creative Writing", "startDate": "2002", "endDate": "2006" } ], "skills": [ { "name": "Claude & Agentic AI", "keywords": [ "Claude Code", "Claude API", "Claude Agent SDK", "Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers", "Tool use / function calling", "Subagents & multi-agent orchestration", "Agent skills & lifecycle hooks", "Agentic workflows (production)", "Headless LLM orchestration (claude -p)", "Structured outputs (schema-validated JSON)", "Prompt engineering", "Evals & regression harnesses" ] }, { "name": "AI & LLM", "keywords": [ "Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite", "OpenAI Moderation", "Microsoft Presidio (PII)", "FaceFusion + ComfyUI (GPU)", "Gemini 2.5 Flash (extraction)", "Gemini Live API (real-time voice)", "Gemini 3 Flash (extraction)", "Nano Banana 2 (imagery)", "Lyria 3 (music)" ] }, { "name": "Frontend", "keywords": [ "React", "Vite", "React 19", "TypeScript", "Vite (pnpm monorepo)", "D3.js", "Leaflet", "React 19 (islands only: nav toggle, work-grid filter)" ] }, { "name": "Backend", "keywords": [ "Python 3.13 (asyncio)", "discord.py", "Python", "FastAPI", "AWS CDK (Python)" ] }, { "name": "Data", "keywords": [ "Neon Postgres", "RDS PostgreSQL", "ElastiCache", "Neon PostgreSQL", "Neon serverless Postgres + Data API", "Postgres Row-Level Security (authz)", "PostgreSQL + PostGIS (Neon)" ] }, { "name": "Cloud & Infrastructure", "keywords": [ "AWS EC2", "API Gateway", "SQS", "AWS CDK", "AWS EC2 GPU Auto Scaling + SQS", "Cognito", "WAF", "CloudFront", "GitHub Actions OIDC", "Caddy on EC2", "AWS Lambda + CDK", "Lambda", "EventBridge", "SQS ingestion", "AWS S3 + CloudFront (Origin Access Control)", "GitHub Actions via OIDC (no stored AWS keys)" ] }, { "name": "Payments & Growth", "keywords": [ "Stripe", "Stripe (subscriptions + gift codes)", "Statsig" ] }, { "name": "Integrations & Auth", "keywords": [ "Clerk (JWT auth)", "Discord bot (Ed25519-verified)", "Steam", "IGDB integrations", "Astro 6 (static-first, zero JS by default)", "Tailwind CSS v4", "Route 53 + ACM" ] }, { "name": "Video Production & Creative", "keywords": [ "Cinematography (RED, Arri, Canon, Blackmagic)", "Adobe Premiere Pro", "After Effects (motion graphics)", "DaVinci Resolve Studio", "Avid Media Composer", "Final Cut Pro", "Adobe Audition", "Photoshop", "Unreal Engine 5", "Studio & field lighting", "Directing & writing", "Broadcast, social, and B2B campaign production" ] } ] }