Matthew Cochran
Co-Founder, OutboundLabs · Senior Software Architect · AI/LLM & Full-Stack Engineering · Engineering Team Leadership
Location
99 Wall Street #2794New York, NY 10005
Phone
(w) 1-800-394-2500
(m) 1-212-470-0237
Intro
Hi, my name is Matthew Cochran. I'm sure you know how challenging it is to ideate, design, and manufacture software today.
It requires carefully balancing mature practices with modern technologies. And talent shortages, legacy system decay, and process inefficiencies present unique challenges for everyone producing software today.
I get it.
I'm a product and tech leader with over twenty-five years of experience across all aspects of digital product development, including strategic analysis, research, and planning; product design and development; technical architecture design; product launch and operations.
What I offer
- I specialize in modernizing product development practices, including executing transformation projects providing legacy system upgrades, aligning product and technical strategy, and shipping greenfield innovation projects.
- I help companies meet their objectives through training, maturing, and growing current teams and culture—all with a deep passion for optimizing software product development: ideation and validation to design and construction.
- I build highly effective and well-balanced product development and software engineering practices, mapping a path toward maturity with highly interpersonal activities like software production requires establishing high-functioning, collaborative, and aligned cross-functional teams.
I have the expertise to help you improve strategic and organizational alignment, achieve digital transformation, and drive business-centered technical and product strategies to take your software product development to the next level.
I look forward to hearing how I can help boost your success. Best wishes and warm regards — Matthew
Expertise
Hands-On Product Lead, Technical Lead, and Operations Lead
Practice Maturity
I help companies establish mature customer-centric product and technology practices through a synergistic integration of processes, technologies, and staffing to align product and technology strategies with business goals.
Process Management
I incorporate process management methodologies from multiple engineering disciplines to help companies mature operations and produce agile systems using agile processes.
Product Management
I develop solid product strategies by balancing customer needs with technical, operational, and business risks. I work with internal stakeholders and elicit customer feedback to make viable product roadmaps with clear milestone deliverables and timelines.
Digital Transformation
I help companies evaluate their organizational structure, operations, and technologies and drive collaborative strategies to modernize antiquated legacy software systems, automate processes, and streamline operations.
Software Architecture
I help companies establish critical foundations necessary to construct and maintain agile and anti-fragile software systems.
DevOps Automation & Mechanization
I help companies establish modern software manufacturing with IAC (Infrastructure-As-Code) and automated CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery) pipelines.
Project Management
I help companies strategize, design, and execute complex projects from strategy and ideation through project design, staffing, and project execution.
Advisory Board Seats
Strategic Technology Advisor
RoboNegotiator
RoboNegotiator is a SaaS company with a vision to change how sellers and buyers trade their products and services.
Kapdec
Kapdec is an education initiative by academicians providing robust e-learning solutions to students, teachers, and schools globally.
Impart Knowledge
Impart Knowledge works with medical professionals to ensure their practice is run in the most efficient manner with the best return on investment possible.
Recent Projects
Establish product management practice
I established a mature customer-centric product management process.
Proposed, evangelized, and moved the company from complete lack of a formal product strategy to a highly formalized project strategy based on JTBD (Jobs To Be Done).
This new practice matured UX from a product design activity in a vacuum to a highly customer-centric activity with continuous feedback and collaboration with actual customers to make data-driven product decisions.
Move Operations to the Cloud
To keep the company operating during the Covid pandemic under extreme cyber-attacks on their legacy systems. I initiated and executed this project to enable staff to work from home with minimal impact.
Inherited an ecosystem with antiquated hardware, 600+ undocumented virtual servers. Project completed in 2 months while under a ransomware attack with no working disaster recovery.
Moved the entire workforce remote with zero downtime; reduced server count from 600 to twelve, fully provisioned via IAC.
Modernize Legacy Infrastructure
I proposed, launched, and managed the migration of all run-time environments from self-managed data centers to the cloud (GCP). This project yielded a 280x improvement in deployment and management efficiency by migrating manual processes to IAC. Case study.
Process and Technology Improvements
I restructured software architecture, development processes and applied new technologies to upgrade production systems. This effort realized a 454% improvement in project execution velocity and a 110x improvement in deployment velocity.
Data Maturity
Proposed and led a project to modernize data capabilities across the organization by using cloud data lake, data warehouse, and cloud-based pipelining tools to establish a single aggregated source of truth for mission-critical business information.
Establish project management practice
I established a formal technical project management process and mature standard operating procedures where none existed before.
This new practice moved the company from an ad hoc request process to a sharper project-centric approach to identify projects that should not move forward because of poor ROI and improve strategic investments based on time, cost, and risk.
Experience
Full experience timeline with roles at OutboundLabs, TruthShield, Artnet, Medidata, PetCareRx, Shutterstock, Vertical Capital, BIA, Debevoise & Plimpton, Boardroom.
For the complete timeline and role details, the original resume HTML is preserved in the repo; this Astro version can be extended with additional timeline entries as needed.