#IAmModivcare | Matthew Pawloski

Matthew Pawloski

Lead Software Engineer

Modivcare held its inaugural National Meeting in January 2022. As part of the meeting, we recognized many of our team members who contribute to our purpose of making connections to care across the business.

Matthew received the 2021 Top Software Engineer of the Year award at the event.

We had the distinct pleasure of interviewing Matthew as part of our #IAmModivcare series and learning more about him.

How did you choose your field of study?

Growing up, I was always very interested in both technology and music. My original plan for college was to double major in music and computer science, but advisors laughed at me saying that would likely take around seven years to accomplish. So, I decided to just stick with computer science for my professional future (I do get to regularly play with musicians in Jacksonville though, so I ended up getting to keep both).?

It excites me to see how fast technology is moving forward. Things exist today that would have been considered completely science fiction just 20 years ago.

As a software engineer, what has been your favorite project at Modivcare and why? What has been the most difficult project and why?

The Lyft Integration was by far my favorite project at Modivcare. I was able to work closely with Lyft and their API to architect and build an integration system from scratch that ended up being the foundation for future business-to-business integrations in the company.

The most difficult project is probably a tie between migrating the Transportation Provider Auto Assignment logic and Trip Completion logic from LogistiCAD to a Java service. Both involved a very large number of validations and legacy business logic that took months to recreate and verify that they were still valid.

Matthew with his wife, Diana, and son, Theodore

What is the best tech-related joke you have ever heard?

There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don’t.

What aspect of technology excites you most?

It excites me to see how fast technology is moving forward. Things exist today that would have been considered completely science fiction just 20 years ago. It will be great to see what the next 20 years bring us.

PC or Mac? iOS or Android?

In general, Mac for creation, PC for consumption.

iOS vs. Android: I prefer Android (even though I use iOS currently).