I’m a Vietnamese American 32 year old man who was born in Fountain Valley, California. Although I spent most of my days in southern California, I’m currently living in Seattle Washington with my best friend Jess Boyd, the two of us raising our beautiful daughter Elliott, who is lucky to have two fur sisters Metric and Mushroom.

Order of appearance from left to right: Mushroom, Me (Matt), Elliott, Jess, Metric

I’m blessed and honored to work as a software engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS). The team I’m on is called Blackfoot and we own and operate network devices sitting at the edge of the EC2 Network. In my role here, I get to apply all the neat computer science that I’ve studied and get to apply the craft of writing clean, maintainable, and beautiful code.

My Interests

Playing tennis competitively
Writing (fiction and non fiction) beautiful prose
Reading (mostly non-fiction but my wife has inspired me to read more fiction)
Being a good father to both my daughter and dogs
Being a good husband to my wonderful wife
Computer Science
Bridging the gap between theory and practice (in everything I do)
Spending time with my close friends and family
Watching Grand Slam Tennis
High performance dog training
Organization skills (digital and physical)
Time Management
Personal Information Management
Psychology
Writing Clean Code
Writing Robust Code
Mentoring
Public Speaking

Get in touch with me via e-mail: matt@mattchung.me