Matt Wixson

Do you have a Netflix subscription? Have you ever shopped at Walmart.com? Have you booked a flight through Travelocity.com or purchased a song on Rhapsody? If you did and paid by a credit card, then you have used one of Matt Wixson’s products. These retailers, and many others, use a payment engine developed by Matt Wixson to process their credit card payments.

Matt Wixson is the Chief Architect of Altruista Health - a health services and technology company where he brings to healthcare a lifetime of experience in security conscious payment processing industry developing mission critical applications. Matt is an experienced software developer, technologist and electronic payments professional with over fifteen years of experience developing and supporting card payment solutions and twenty years of software development experience. During this time, Matt has created a broad range of successful applications for the private and public sectors ranging from management information systems (MIS) for the American Automobile Association (AAA) and the US Patent Office to real-time, transaction processing systems used by Netflix, Real Networks, SBC, Travelocity and Walmart.com (to name just a few).

Matt has a deep knowledge of the payments industry, based on a career in the industry serving in roles including Consultant for Litle & Co, Senior Software Developer/Specialist at Chase Paymentech Solutions, Founder and Chief Architect of Paymentplus, Inc. and Chief Technology Officer at Retail Decisions, Inc.

Matt has diverse experience having used a number of key, open-source and commercial-of-the-shelf (COTS) technologies including Linux, Windows .NET, Oracle, Informix, Sybase, MySQL, PostgreSQL, TCP/IP networking, Apache, IIS, C++, PHP, ASP.NET, HTML, XML and JavaScript (AJAX).

Matt has a proven track record of transforming concepts into products and takes pride in developing, quality products through agile development. According to Matt, “customer interaction and feedback are the most important aspects of software development…a product will only succeed if it adapts to the customer.”