DESIGNER  ·  ENGINEER  ·  INVENTOR

MATTHEW
DARROW
SCHIFFMAN

Building the systems behind the show — from Broadway soundboards to real-time Bitcoin micropayments.

THE STORY

ONE CAREER, MULTIPLE ACTS.

I
STAGE

BFA in Theatre Design & Technology, University of Miami. Toured as a sound engineer mixing for Jimmy Buffett and John Leguizamo. Built audio systems for Broadway’s Side Show and the national tour of Rent. Continue producing theatre with longtime collaborators to this day.

II
DARROW DIGITAL MEDIA

I founded and led an independent digital consultancy for 17 years. It served as the backbone of my career, delivering engineering leadership on major projects and supporting nearly two decades of clients across beauty, pharma, and retail with full ownership across client, technical, and creative work.

III
PLATFORM

Exiting Darrow Digital Media, I moved into leadership roles. This included lead front-end positions at The Clearing House and Icon Technology Studio, architecting Expedia’s corporate infrastructure administration platform, and developing greenfield trading applications at Morgan Stanley and Bank of America.

IV
INVENTION

Founder of Waveform Karaoke, a patent-pending karaoke platform that scores live vocals against the original artist’s isolated track and processes real-time payments via the Bitcoin Lightning Network — connecting human performance directly to automated value transfer.

PATENT-PENDING · FOUNDER & INVENTOR

WAVEFORM
KARAOKE

A real-time vocal scoring platform that compares a singer's waveform against the original artist's isolated vocal track. When the waveforms align, the score climbs — and Bitcoin Lightning Network micropayments flow straight to the performer's wallet. The first system linking live human performance directly to automated value transfer.

— Next.js · Tone.js · Voltage-hosted Lightning node
— Sub-second transaction latency, production-grade
— Live demo at wave-form.app/demo · code DEMO2026
TRY THE LIVE DEMO
Waveform Karaoke website
Waveform Karaoke mobile site
SELECTED ENGINEERING WORK

TRUSTED WITH THE SYSTEMS THAT MOVE MONEY AND CULTURE.

BANK OF AMERICA Senior Lead Front-End Engineer / UX Designer · 2024–2025
MORGAN STANLEY Software Engineer / Front-End Lead · 2023–2024
EXPEDIA GROUP Lead Front-End UX Developer & Designer · 2022–2023
ICON TECHNOLOGY STUDIO Lead Developer, Web & Cryptocurrency · 2021–2022
THE CLEARING HOUSE Front-End Team Lead · 2021
SYMBIONT Software Engineer, Front-End Lead · 2019–2021
SIRIUSXM Lead Front-End Developer · 2018–2019
DARROW DIGITAL MEDIA Founder & Principal · 2003–2020
THE ESTÉE LAUDER COMPANIES Operations, Application Development, Engineering
AT&T · FIRSTNET Front-End Track Lead, AppStore & AppControl
GOLDMAN SACHS Front-End Specialist
FRIARS CLUB Lead Website Developer / Designer
PROCTER & GAMBLE Front-End Project Lead / UX Designer
AMAZON ADX Design Technologist
GLOBALWORKS Senior Web Application Developer
FLASHPOINT MEDICA Information Architect / Web App Developer
THE CORKERY GROUP Interactive Application Developer, cancerprogress.net
PATIENTS & PURPOSE Information Architect / Web App Developer
TOUCHPAK Senior Interactive Designer / Flash Developer
CURRENT MEDICAL DIRECTIONS Interactive Producer / Designer
FASHION500.COM Flash Artist / ActionScript Programmer
GC INCENTIVES · GIFTCERTIFICATES.COM Web Designer
IGNITE SXSW — AUTONOMOUS ROBOT TALK, 2015 GARAGE POWERED BY GE — SMART DEVICE PROTOTYPING, 2014 SXSW — MY ROBOT POOPS, IN JAVASCRIPT, 2014 NATIONAL ROBOTICS WEEK NYC — FLIPPY DEMO, 2013
IGNITE SXSW — AUTONOMOUS ROBOT TALK, 2015 GARAGE POWERED BY GE — SMART DEVICE PROTOTYPING, 2014 SXSW — MY ROBOT POOPS, IN JAVASCRIPT, 2014 NATIONAL ROBOTICS WEEK NYC — FLIPPY DEMO, 2013
OPEN TO CONTRACT & FULL-TIME ROLES

LET'S BUILD
SOMETHING
TOGETHER.

Front-end architecture, L2 payments integrations, and UX for products that move money & culture

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