Matthew Hartigan

About

Multidisciplinary engineer with hands-on experience designing, building, and maintaining offshore oil platforms. I also run a small independent tech studio where I enjoy turning messy, real-world workflows into clean, scalable digital products for a wide range of clients.

Experience

Engineering Experience

Marine Engineer

2023 - Present

Chevron, Louisiana

  • Lead annual inspections of ballast tanks on floating platforms in compliance with USCG and ABS regulations.
  • Interpreted inspection data to prioritize structural maintenance and asset integrity decisions.
  • Identified and deployed next-gen robotic inspection tools to enhance field safety and data capture (e.g. mini robotic submarines).
  • Featured Speaker at 2024 Deepwater Ops & Topsides Conference in Galveston, TX ? "Employing Technology & Robotics to Deepwater Asset Inspections".

Offshore Structural Engineer

2018 - 2023

Chevron, Texas, Africa

  • Delivered Phase 2 conceptual design and Pre-FEED deliverables for the South N'Dola jacket for Chevron Angola.
  • Performed structural analysis for company's global portfolio of fixed and floating platforms using ANSYS, Abaqus, and SACS.
  • Supported loadout, transport and offshore installation of the SLGC jacket in Angola Block 0 as client rep site-based engineer.

Project Engineer - "Bigfoot" Platform

2014 - 2018

Chevron, Texas

  • Coordinated with global vendors to manufacture and deliver mooring system components to the fabrication yard on schedule.
  • Supervised fabrication and loadout operations at Kiewit Yard in Ingleside, TX, ensuring compliance with technical and safety standards.
  • Client rep onboard deepwater construction (crane) vessel during platform installation 200 miles offshore in the Gulf of Mexico.

Tech Experience

Founder & Technical Lead

2020 - Present

Deepwater Digital LLC, Remote

Building Custom Full-Stack Applications for Diverse Clients

  • Chainview Capital (Hedge Fund Fintech): Designed and deployed full-stack cloud infrastructure for a quantitative hedge fund. Built automated trading bots executing strategies driven by proprietary ML models.
  • Custom Tournament Solutions (Event Tech): Developed a full-stack web platform for managing fishing tournaments, including real-time scoring, registration, sponsor tools, and betting pots. Expanded initial MVP into a scalable, hands-off SaaS product used by 400 participants.
  • Field Sense Al (Ecology): Built an end-to-end system for collecting and analyzing wildlife audio recordings using machine learning. Enabled a dual-tier experience for free and paid users with real-time visualization of model outputs.

Education

MSE, Structural Engineering

2014

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Men's Volleyball, Steel Bridge Team

BSE, Civil & Environmental Engineering

2013

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Men's Volleyball, Steel Bridge Team

BS, Computer Science

2020

Regis University, Remote (at night)

Certifications

Licensed Professional Engineer (PE)

Civil Engineering - TX #123268

Active

Spanish Language

DELE C1

Registered for Nov-2025 exam

Technical Skills

Programming & Frameworks

  • JavaScript/TypeScript (React, Node.js, Express.js)
  • Python (Flask)
  • SQL, NoSQL

Cloud & Infrastructure

  • GCP, Heroku, Firebase
  • Stripe React Integration
  • Hubspot (for automated marketing campaigns)

Data & Machine Learning

  • Python ML Libraries (various)
  • H2O.ai, Hugging Face
  • Daily workflow includes ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor

Engineering & Operations

  • Structural/Marine Engineering
  • ANSYS, Abaqus, and SACS
  • Field Deployment & Project Management

Links & Contact

Connect with me for job opportunities, project requests, or just to chat!