Matthew Rothenberg

Matthew Rothenberg is a seasoned Product & Engineering leader with over 20 years of experience building high-performing teams.

Currently, Matthew holds an Engineering Leadership role at Protocol Labs, where Matthew supports horizontal engineering and development efforts for a global team focused on radically improving the internet.

Matthew's expertise spans engineering leadership, product management, software development lifecycle, and cross-functional team leadership, with proficiency in Go, Git, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Matthew is known for creating Emojitracker, an experiment in real-time visualization of Twitter data that analyzed over 50 billion tweets and was later acquired by Emojipedia.

Prior to Protocol Labs, Matthew was the Head of High Assurance Engineering at Stripe, leading the engineering infrastructure responsible for Stripe's secure and regulatory-compliant Cardholder Data Environment (CDE) platform. Matthew also served as SVP Engineering & Product (OpenLaw) at ConsenSys, leading engineering and product for a blockchain-based smart agreements startup. Earlier in Matthew's career, Matthew held leadership positions as Staff Engineering Manager at Khan Academy, SVP of Product & Consumer Engineering at Bitly, and Head of Product at Flickr.

Matthew is passionate about driving innovation in the practice, tooling, and culture of software development, with a current interest in building decentralized organizations and humane technology.

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