Matt Crane
Software Engineer at Airbnb
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Crane is a software engineer in San Francisco with a decade of experience building scalable machine learning infrastructure and information-retrieval systems. He currently works at Airbnb on the ML infrastructure team, focusing on workflows, tooling, and improving the ML developer experience. Previously at Instacart, he led cross-company ML infrastructure initiatives and rewrote key feature store infrastructure in Rust, delivering a 10x p99 latency improvement across 10x fewer instances. His career also includes roles at Meta and significant academic research, including a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Otago and postdoctoral work, with early projects on readability-aware ranking in search engines. He specializes in information retrieval, collaborative filtering, recommender systems, and writing fast, production-grade code, bridging research and practice across large-scale systems. Based in the Bay Area, he combines technical depth with leadership in mentoring and building developer-focused infrastructure that scales with growing ML teams.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of Otago
Stackoverflow
73reputation
2kreached
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2questions
Github Skills (105)
webview10
forge10
reactive10
lucene10
retrieval10
information-retrieval10
isomorphic10
dom10
web-applications9
cli9
webassembly9
rust9
python9
multithreading9
python-script9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
snapbug/memcache_exporter
Mar 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 7 months
exporterprometheus-exportermemcacheprometheusmetrics
lintool/JASS
Apr 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 1 year 9 months
reactindexesjavascriptrankingnodejs
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