Matthew Knight
Staff Software Development Engineer at Zscaler
Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolMatthew Knight is a Staff Software Development Engineer with nine years of experience blending embedded systems, low-level C/compiler work and backend engineering. Based in Surrey, BC, he currently leads engineering at Zscaler after senior roles at Sysdig and Elastic and holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from BCIT. An active open-source contributor, Matthew has made substantive contributions to the Zig language—implementing C translation features, 64-bit immediate handling and BPF syscall support—and to microcontroller HALs, adding Cortex‑M0+ support and STM32 register definitions. He brings a rare cross-domain skill set that links compiler internals, hardware bring-up and cloud production systems, often shipping pragmatic fixes that close the gap between silicon and toolchain.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
Github Skills (17)
compiler-development10
stm3210
microcontroller10
zig10
embedded10
stm10
microcontrollers10
hal10
ebpf9
programming-language9
lpc9
interrupts9
c179
interrupt9
programming-languages9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ZigEmbeddedGroup/microzig
May 2022 - Dec 2022
Unified abstraction layer and HAL for several microcontrollers
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:121 reviews, 19 commits, 325 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the development of a unified abstraction layer and HAL for various microcontrollers within the `microzig` project. Their work included adding support for new CPU architectures, specifically Cortex-M0plus, and addressing missing HAL components. The user also made updates, such as fixing issues related to interrupt service routines (ISRs) and clock configuration. Furthermore, they generated register definitions for specific microcontrollers like STM32F103, STM32F303, STM32F407 and STM32F429.
adazig-packageprintfmicrocontrollerzig
ziglang/zig
May 2020 - Dec 2022
General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 30 commits, 26 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the `ziglang/zig` project by implementing and refactoring code related to the C translation features. They added functionality for scoped typedefs, moved duplicated code into common functions, and updated code to handle 64-bit immediates. Further, they added bpf() syscall and supporting structs, and added more op codes. These contributions directly support the compiler's ability to translate C code to Zig.
purposecompilertoolchainzigprogramming-language
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