Matt Raffel

Matt Raffel has a diverse work experience in various roles and industries. Matt is currently working as a Principal Engineer at Kiva, where they lead the engineering and architecture of banking and credit technologies for under-served individuals. Matt is involved in all phases of engineering, including research, design, implementation, and testing, using SSI, verifiable credentials, and hyperledger indy blockchain technologies.

Previously, Matt worked at Tatman Games as an "All Hats," where they served as a producer, lead engineer, tester, and brand manager for the game Max Capacity, utilizing Unity and C#.

Before that, they worked at Evernym, Inc. as a Software Architect, responsible for architecting and leading the engineering of cryptographic wallet functionality for tokenized transactions, using technologies such as rust, C#, objective-C, android, iOS, docker, and hyperledger indy. Matt also led the implementation of libsovtoken and developed best practices around TDD.

Matt also worked at NCR as a Principal Engineer, where they led an engineering team in the development of 2-way video technologies for ATM and POS systems. Matt was responsible for overall architecture and technical design, working closely with product owners and senior management. Matt also led the team in day-to-day activities and was involved in coding, testing, prototyping, and API design.

Earlier in their career, Matt worked at Miles Consulting Corp as a Senior .NET Architect, at Sage Software SBD Inc as a Principal Engineer, and at SilverPop Inc as a Team Lead. At SilverPop, they were responsible for designing and implementing the architecture of a client portion of a mass email marketing tool, using technologies such as C++, java, java applets, HTML, DHTML, javascript, ActiveX, and COM.

Overall, Matt Raffel has a strong background in engineering, architecture, and leadership roles, with expertise in various technologies and industries.

Matt Raffel attended the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Wisconsin Lutheran College, but their specific degree, field of study, and dates of attendance are not provided. Matt has also obtained a certification called "Ability to Execute (A2E) Lead Journey" from McKinsey & Company, which they obtained in 2023.