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Matt Morris

Energizer · DISC type I
Engineering Manager, Automations & Integrations at Close
📍 New York City Metropolitan Area, United States

Matt is an engineering leader specializing in building and scaling teams, with experience doubling a departments size while maintaining culture. He currently manages the Automations & Integrations team at Close, drawing on his experience leading distributed workforces across 10 time zones.

Outside of work, Matt is a father of two who lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife. He is an avid reader who publicly shares his annual reading list, which focuses on non-fiction books about technology, history, and social issues.

He is a proponent of "embracing imperfection" and maintains a personal blog where he writes about technology and leadership.

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Experience
12 Years
Current Role
Engineering Manager, Automations & Integrations
Job Level
Middle
Location
New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Personality Overview

How Matt shows up

Informal
Enthusiastic
Imaginative

They are not always early adopters but can be pursuaded by leveraging strong relationships. They are friendly, approachable and love to make new connections. They are always positive and upbeat, so take their promises with a pinch of salt.

Priorities

Topics Matt cares about

Engineering Team Culture
He has direct experience doubling an engineering team's size while maintaining culture and has written publicly about building a healthy on-call environment.
Distributed Teams
Having managed teams across 10 time zones, he strongly believes in and advocates for the importance of well-constructed written communication for remote success.
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Career

Work history

1-2023
Engineering Manager, Automations & Integrations
Close
4-2021
Founder, CTO, Lead Engineer
Modern Bit and Pixel, LLC
12-2019 - 4-2021
VP, Engineering
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5-2019 - 12-2019
Director Of Engineering
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2-2017 - 5-2019
Senior Software Engineer
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In the press

Media appearances

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Education
1998 - 2002
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University of Rochester
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New York University
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Influence (I)

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