Matthew Pazaryna
Principal software engineer and hands-on technical leader with 40 years of experience delivering products from enterprise platforms to modern AI applications. I design agentic-first engineering systems that apply specialized AI agents across the classical software development lifecycle, from discovery and requirements through architecture, implementation, review, UAT, release, and operations. People remain accountable for business meaning, technical synthesis, security decisions, acceptance, and production. Agents expand execution capacity and preserve traceable evidence. My background spans full-stack product development, healthcare data integration, platform modernization, and privacy-first AI.
Skills
Technical Leadership
Full-Stack Engineering
Systems & Delivery
AI Engineering
Agentic SDLC Architecture
Apple Platform
Experience
Principal Software Engineer & Consultant
Jul 2023 — PresentIndependent · Remote
Designing and leading agentic-first software delivery: a practical implementation of specialized AI agents across the complete SDLC, proven through production healthcare platforms and AI-enabled products.
- • Designed and implemented an Agentic SDLC that coordinates specialized agents from discovery and requirements through architecture, implementation, independent review, testing, UAT, release work, and operational evidence.
- • Defined durable contracts between stages: source-backed requirements, PRDs, execution specifications, acceptance scenarios, bounded agent assignments, test evidence, UAT findings, and exact-release records.
- • Kept authority explicit throughout the system. Domain experts decide business meaning; the principal engineer owns architecture and synthesis; accountable people retain security and acceptance authority plus production control.
- • Proved the model as the senior builder for Proactive Logic's Agave platform, owning architecture, technical planning, implementation, verification, plus release preparation. The production pharmacy benefit management enrollment system transforms incoming correctional enrollment feeds into EDI 834 documents.
- • Built the modular .NET 10 and SQL Server pipeline for parsing, canonical persistence, day-over-day delta detection, exception controls, EDI generation, telemetry, plus operator-facing evidence, with React and TypeScript interfaces.
- • Delivered v2.7.1 with a release-era verification record of 2,611 passing .NET tests, 328 web unit tests, and 63 Playwright end-to-end checks.
- • Architected Chiro, a privacy-first clinical documentation application using SwiftUI and on-device Apple MLX inference so sensitive patient data remains on the device.
- • Led full-stack delivery of Resin, a nonprofit fundraising analytics platform, from data pipelines and agentic workflows through production deployment on Vercel.
- • Created Kairos, an open-source AI-augmented productivity system that combines agentic workflows with load-based self-regulation.
- • Established reusable engineering practices for AI-assisted teams, including specification-driven development, documentation hierarchies, and staged delivery workflows.
Lead Engineer
Mar 2020 — Jul 2023Stealth Startup · Annapolis, Maryland
Hands-on technical lead for a real estate financial analysis platform serving homebuyers, investors, and agents.
- • Owned technical direction and hands-on delivery across UX, backend architecture, data modeling, feature development, and release planning.
- • Designed financial modeling tools for home-purchase decisions, rental analysis, and investment strategy evaluation.
- • Partnered directly with domain experts and stakeholders to turn complex real estate scenarios into intuitive, maintainable software.
Technical Lead & Development Manager
Jan 2011 — Jan 2020Sungard Availability Services · Annapolis, Maryland
Led engineering for Viewpoint, an enterprise managed-services portal supporting mission-critical services for Fortune 500 clients.
- • Led and mentored distributed engineering teams across the United States, India, and Costa Rica.
- • Combined technical-lead and product-management responsibilities, owning architecture, roadmap, customer relationships, and delivery priorities.
- • Guided development and operation of a platform supporting mission-critical disaster recovery and business continuity services.
Staff Engineer
Jan 2006 — Jan 2011AT&T (via USi acquisition) · Annapolis, Maryland
Lead developer for enterprise managed services customer portal.
- • Led development of a large-scale reporting platform for SLA monitoring and event management.
- • Directed a portal modernization initiative that moved legacy capabilities to a Ruby on Rails architecture.
- • Maintained technical continuity and reliable delivery through multiple acquisition transitions.
Senior Developer
Jan 1999 — Jan 2006The National Academies Press · Washington, DC
Technical lead for publishing platform serving the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
- • Architected database systems and full-stack applications supporting complex scientific publication workflows.
- • Mentored engineers and established development practices that improved team delivery and maintainability.
- • Built systems supporting free public access to scientific research - early open access advocate.
Manager of Information Services
Jan 1993 — Jan 1999Regency Homes ·
Led information systems for a residential homebuilder.
- • Built production workflow systems supporting homebuilding operations.
Application Developer
Jan 1987 — Jan 1993The Washington Center ·
Developed custom database applications for a nonprofit organization.
- • Designed and delivered database systems supporting nonprofit programs and operations.
Projects
Agave
Production PBM enrollment platform and proving ground for a full-lifecycle Agentic SDLC
- • Senior builder accountable for architecture, technical planning, implementation, verification, and release-candidate preparation
- • Modular pipeline covering multi-format ingestion, canonical persistence, day-over-day changes, exception controls, EDI 834 output, telemetry, and operator evidence
- • Designed the agent orchestration model connecting discovery, SME-approved requirements, architecture, test-driven implementation, independent review, UAT, release, and operations
- • Used durable artifacts and executable gates to let agents carry context across SDLC stages without assuming human decision authority
- • Production release verified by 2,611 .NET, 328 web unit, and 63 Playwright end-to-end passing tests
Privacy-first chiropractic SOAP notes with on-device AI
- • Apple MLX for local model inference - no cloud required
- • HIPAA-safe by architecture, not policy
- • SwiftUI native interface
Resin
AI agentic system for nonprofit fundraising analytics
- • Agentic architecture for Salesforce data interaction
- • Full-stack from data pipelines to production deployment
- • Private client engagement - nonprofit sector
AI-augmented productivity system with load-based self-regulation
- • Agentic workflow patterns for sustainable pace
- • Self-regulating load calculation from trailing metrics
- • Published methodology supported by working tools
Certifications
Introduction to LangGraph
LangChain Academy
2024-09-26
Neo4j Fundamentals
Neo4j
2024-03
Education
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland
Graduate Studies
Rehabilitation Counseling
1987
Seton Hall University
South Orange, New Jersey
Bachelor's Degree
1985