Matt Makai (@mattmakai) is Twilio's Washington, D.C.-based Developer Evangelist experienced in the Python and Java web stacks. Matt previously developed software for large organizations like The Motley Fool, Department of Defense, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and Freddie Mac. In 2013, Matt traveled to 30 cities in 5 months for his Coding Across America project to learn from software communities outside the Beltway and apply those ideas to the D.C. tech scene. Matt earned his B.S. in Computer Science from James Madison University, M.S. in Computer Science at Virginia Tech, and M.S. in Management of Information Technology at the University of Virginia.