Hello, my name is Matt Cliff, I live in Denver with my wife and two primary school aged kids. We enjoy hiking, camping, skiing, and cooking.

Top Reasons to hire Matt include

• Math Foundation and Continual Learning - having completed a MS in Mathematics; taught calculus in graduate school; work with stochastic PDE and numerical analysis; abstract thinker. Foundation for Machine Learning and Predictive modeling with understanding the statistics and linear algebra
• Developer/Architect - with twenty years of professional experience in software development having worked a in development, architecture and PM roles on projects utilizing both traditional and agile approaches. Matt has a solid understanding how to to take a technology idea and get it implemented in a production system with industry standard development life-cycle management controls. Certified AWS Cloud Architect Associate
• Leadership/Management - in addition to ten years as Technology Manager at Wells Fargo, have been a team lead in both project and organizational settings; managed department project portfolios, coaching, budgeting, compliance and training; communicated with key business partners, customers, other technology managers and senior leadership
• Support/Troubleshooting - able to combine these skill sets together to support critical production issues; having an ability to abstract the parts of the system, understand the various inputs and outputs of each component and identify which tools are available to manage/monitor those pieces has been a invaluable skill both at times when there is an emergency, and more generally learning new systems

This site is hosted on a AWS S3 bucket running static content using the REACT and bootstrap frameworks. The articles and projects are published here, as well as on RPub, Shiny and GitHub. I am currently working with the Serverless Framework and various Docker containers for presenting R and Python work, however free options such as GitHub and Kaggle are also great places to share data work.

Docker continues to amaze me as a part of a development toolkit, I just located the pysh-db image which is a swiss-army knife of command line interface to any common Remote DB all for 400MB.