Full-Stack Software Engineer

Matthew Snyder

Five years deep on FDR, the federal draw and reporting platform behind California's Medicaid program. I work the full stack — React front ends, Node.js microservices, PostgreSQL, AWS — and pick up freelance web work on the side.

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  • Prospect Heights, IL
  • Fully remote
Portrait of Matthew Snyder

About

A little context

I'm a full-stack software engineer in Prospect Heights, Illinois, working fully remote. Since January 2021 I've been on the core engineering team for FDR (Federal Draw and Reporting), the platform California's Department of Health Care Services uses to manage federal Medicaid fund draws and reporting. That work spans the whole stack: a React front end, a fleet of Node.js microservices, PostgreSQL, AWS infrastructure, and the CI/CD plumbing that keeps a dozen services shipping.

The rest of my time goes to freelance web work. I maintain and redesign the public site for SingUnited (formerly Sweet Adelines), a women's vocal ensemble — including the move to Drupal 10, security updates, and running their Plesk server. I also rebuilt ServiceSync, an internal technician tool for a Tulsa company, migrating it off .NET Framework 4 and writing the entire React front end from scratch.

AI is central to how I work. I build with AI assistance on every project, and I wrote my own web harness for local LLMs — SinisterAI — a self-hosted application with tool calling, scheduled tasks, and long-term memory that runs entirely on local hardware. It is the tool I now use for my own day-to-day development.

Before all of this: a B.S. in Information Technology from Oral Roberts University (2014), and a long-running habit of taking things apart to see how they work.

Experience

Where I've worked, and what I shipped

Software Engineer

Full Stack Labs — contract via Deloitte, California DHCS

Current · Full-time Jan 2021 — Present

Remote (Prospect Heights, IL)

Full-time role on the full-stack team for FDR, the web platform CA DHCS uses to draw down and report on federal Medicaid funds.

  • Build features end to end across a React + Material-UI front end and a fleet of Node.js (Koa) microservices — draws, vouchers, receipts, reference data, and jobs — with Redux state management and shared domain models.
  • Own the delivery loop: PostgreSQL schema migrations with Knex, API development, Docker images, CircleCI pipelines, and Terraform-managed AWS infrastructure (S3, Kafka, Databricks).
  • Work inside a regulated federal environment: Azure AD single sign-on, Datadog observability, and review-heavy change control on a system that tracks real Medicaid dollars.
  • React
  • Redux
  • Material-UI
  • Node.js
  • Koa
  • PostgreSQL
  • Knex
  • AWS
  • S3
  • Kafka
  • Databricks
  • Azure AD
  • Datadog
  • Docker
  • Terraform
  • CircleCI

Software Developer

ServiceSync — Clifford Power (Tulsa, OK)

Freelance / Contract Jun 2023 — Present

Remote

Internal tool for field technicians: parts lookups, reference sheets, and file uploads and downloads.

  • Migrated the platform from .NET Framework 4.8 to modern .NET (now net10.0) ASP.NET Core with Dapper, SQL Server, and Azure Blob Storage — then took over ownership of the backend.
  • Designed and built the entire React 18 UI from scratch: MUI with the Pro data grid, document and file workflows, and a webpack build wired into the .NET publish pipeline.
  • Shipped new features on the rebuilt stack, including companion apps for compliance and installation documentation.
  • .NET 10
  • ASP.NET Core
  • C#
  • Dapper
  • SQL Server
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • React 18
  • MUI
  • Formik
  • Webpack

Web Developer & Site Maintainer

SingUnited (formerly Sweet Adelines)

Freelance / Contract Apr 2020 — Present

Remote

Ongoing development and maintenance of the organization's public website, singunited.org.

  • Led a full site redesign built on a custom Drupal theme (Less, Gulp, Slick), and handle day-to-day content and maintenance work.
  • Upgraded the site to Drupal 10 in 2024 and keep it current with security and dependency updates.
  • Manage the hosting side: Plesk server administration with nginx, PHP-FPM, and MariaDB.
  • Drupal 10
  • PHP
  • Less
  • Gulp
  • Plesk
  • nginx
  • PHP-FPM
  • MariaDB

Skills

The tools I reach for, by layer

Frontend

  • React
  • Redux
  • TypeScript
  • Material-UI / MUI
  • HTML & CSS
  • Webpack
  • Jest

Backend

  • Node.js
  • Koa
  • ASP.NET Core
  • C#
  • REST APIs
  • GraphQL

Data & Storage

  • PostgreSQL
  • SQL Server
  • Knex
  • Objection
  • Dapper
  • AWS S3
  • Azure Blob Storage

Cloud & DevOps

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Docker
  • Terraform
  • CircleCI
  • CI/CD

Practices

  • TDD
  • Code review
  • Legacy modernization
  • Regulated environments
  • Server administration

AI & LLMs

  • LLM-assisted development
  • Local inference
  • Tool calling
  • Agent workflows
  • Self-hosting

Education

Education

B.S. in Information Technology

Oral Roberts University · Tulsa, OK

2014

Contact

Get in touch

The fastest way to reach me is email. I answer quickly.

Email matthewsnyderdf@gmail.com Phone 773-297-9456 LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/matthewsnyderdf GitHub github.com/mssnyder
Location Prospect Heights, IL — remote