Matt Sponer
About Matt Sponer
Matt Sponer is a Principal Software Engineer at Expedia Group, known for optimizing API latency and enhancing system architecture through advanced DevOps practices.
Title
Matt Sponer is a Principal Software Engineer at Expedia Group, where he has been working since 2022. He is based in Seattle, Washington, United States.
Education and Expertise
Matt Sponer attended Pitzer College from 1995 to 1999, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree. His expertise includes back-end system efficiency, architecture optimization, and advanced DevOps practices. He has experience with technologies such as Kotlin, Node.js, Terraform, ALB, ECS, CloudFront, and SQS.
Background
At Expedia Group, Matt Sponer focuses on enhancing system performance and security. He has significantly reduced API latency from seconds to less than 5 milliseconds through meticulous optimization. Additionally, he has ported a considerable portion of the back-end from Node.js to Kotlin, achieving improvement in overall system efficiency.
Achievements
Matt Sponer has accomplished numerous enhancements in his role. He refactored core architecture to a functional composition style, simplifying unit testing and boosting performance. He introduced Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to increase scalability. His implementation of advanced DevOps practices, such as ALB, ECS, CloudFront, and SQS, has refined system architecture. Security improvements include migrating to MFA AWS IAM authentication, removing public IPs, and securing internal web tools with Cognito/ALB. Moreover, he developed tools and scripts to ensure smooth changes for engineers and implemented structured logging, request tracing, and metrics reporting to enhance monitoring and diagnostics.