Matt Horton is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Technology Officer based in St. Petersburg, Florida, with 11 years of experience building cloud-native IoT and enterprise systems. As founder and chief architect of sensorFact he led a five-person team to build a GCP-based IoT platform ingesting live data from 2,800+ locations at 60-second cadence and guided the company to acquisition in 2019. He blends hands-on engineering across Go, Node.js, Python, C++, Java and TypeScript with platform ops—Kubernetes, Compute Engine, Redis and RabbitMQ—and a strong product focus on polished UX. An active contributor to open-source projects, he has improved front-end UX and even added video support to the low-latency audio project JackTrip, underscoring his full‑stack breadth and attention to detail. Now as CTO at BeniComp Health Solutions he pairs technical stewardship with customer-facing evangelism and a history of turning prototypes into scalable commercial services.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering at Oklahoma State University
Master of Arts (M.A.), Music, Science, and Technology, Master of Arts (M.A.), Music, Science, and Technology at Stanford University
JackTrip: multi-machine audio network performance over the Internet.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:26 releases, 105 reviews, 632 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on the development of the user interface for the JackTrip application. Their contributions included implementing drop shadows and fixing scrolling issues within the Browse.qml file. The user also made UI polish changes within the Settings.qml and FirstLaunch.qml files, and added a video feature, suggesting a focus on front-end development and UI/UX improvements. In addition, the user made build and setup configuration changes.
Contributions:5 releases, 146 commits, 115 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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