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Matthew Makai is currently the Director of Developer Content at Twilio and an Extended Team Member at Ubiquity Ventures. He has over 15 years of experience in developer marketing, technical content creation, and software development. He is also known for creating the popular online book and resource Full Stack Python, as well as undertaking a 5-month road trip across the US to meet with developers called Coding Across America.

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Matthew Makai: Primary Capabilities

Matthew Makai is currently the Director of Developer Content at Twilio and an Extended Team Member at Ubiquity Ventures. He has over 15 years of experience in developer marketing, technical content creation, and software development. He is also known for creating the popular online book and resource Full Stack Python, as well as undertaking a 5-month road trip across the US to meet with developers called Coding Across America.

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Matthew Makai

Work
Twilio | Washington, D.C. & San Francisco, CA | Jan 2014 - Present | twilio.com
Current: Director, Developer Content.
Previously: Senior Manager, Developer Voices. Promoted from: Manager, Developer Evangelism.
Promoted from: Developer Evangelist.
Responsible for Twilio's top-of-funnel execution and developer adoption results at scale.

Ubiquity Ventures | San Francisco, CA | Jul 2017 - Present | ubiquity.vc


Extended Team Member.
Ubiquity Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm investing in software in the real world. We take an
"early and nerdy" approach to investing in smart hardware and machine intelligence applications.

AssemblyAI | San Francisco Bay Area | 2017 - Present | assemblyai.com


Hunter2 | San Francisco Bay Area | 2017 - Jan 2020 (exited, sold to Veracode)
[email protected] Esper | San Francisco Bay Area | 2019 - Present | esper.com
 github.com/mattmakai Developer Relations and Go-to-Market Strategy Advisor.
 twitter.com/mattmakai Working with several early-stage companies on developer marketing strategy and growth tactics.
 fullstackpython.com
 mattmakai.com Excella Consulting | Washington, D.C. | Sept 2010 - Nov 2013 | excella.com
Managing Consultant and Python Practice Lead. Promoted from: Senior Consultant.
Created and ran Excella's Python practice, about $2 million/year in revenue (15 consultants). Developed,
performed code reviews and mentored newer programmers. Brought in five new major clients.
Primary Capabilities
Developer Marketing & Sales Sapient | Arlington, VA | Dec 2009 - Sept 2010 | sapient.com
> Developer product adoption Senior Associate Software Developer.
> Technical content Led a team of Java developers to implement a cleared forensic evidence tracking system for the FBI's
> Developer evangelism Operational Technology Division based in Arlington and Quantico, Virginia.
> Developer-led sales strategy
Booz Allen Hamilton | Charlottesville, VA | Jul 2007 - Dec 2009 | boozallen.com
Remote Team Management Senior Consultant.
> Results-oriented work cultures Developed Java-based biometrics applications for the Department of Defense to transform millions of
> Globally-distributed operations records from upstream collection systems into structured entities that could be searched and modified.
> Polyglot development teams

Freddie Mac | Tyson's Corner, VA | May-Aug 2004, Jun 2005 - Jul 2007 | freddiemac.com
Software Development
Programmer Analyst. Promoted from: Programmer Analyst Associate. Intern.
> Python (primary)
Designed and developed multiple internal enterprise accounting applications that directly reduced the
> Java (secondary)
number of days required to complete Freddie Mac's external financial reporting process.

Known For
Full Stack Python | www.fullstackpython.com
An open source book, read by over 155,000 developers each month, that teaches readers how to build,
deploy and operate Python-powered applications by explaining technical concepts in plain language and
providing the best additional resources that have been created by the Python community.

Coding Across America | www.codingacrossamerica.com


A self-driven project where I met with software developers and tech startups in 30 cities while road tripping
13,690 miles in 5 months. Spoke at tech events and coded remotely for consulting clients while on the road.

Async Python Web Apps with WebSockets & gevent | SF Python


One example programming talk of dozens. Video: bit.ly/sf-python-jan-2015.

Python for Entrepreneurs. Introduction to Ansible. | Talk Python to Me


Video courses: bit.ly/python-entrepreneurs and bit.ly/intro-ansible.

Education
University of Virginia M.S. Management of Information Technology 2010
Virginia Tech M.S. Computer Science and Applications 2008
James Madison University B.S. Computer Science 2005

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