Mathew Hogan
Software Engineer at Cursor
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMathew Hogan is a software engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with five years of experience building production-grade distributed systems and storage for high-scale platforms. His background includes contributing to Apache Kafka storage at Confluent and leading technical teams at Contextual AI before joining Cursor, demonstrating both deep systems expertise and early management experience. He holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Stanford and has taught core CS courses there, showing a strong foundation in operating systems, security, and blockchain topics. Mathew’s internships at Amazon and AWS produced shipped features and cost-saving infrastructure—one project eliminated millions in monthly waste—highlighting a track record of practical impact. Known for bridging low-level systems work with product-focused delivery, he combines rigorous academic training with hands-on production experience. An understated strength is his experience designing accessible device features at Amazon Lab126, reflecting attention to real-world user needs beyond just backend systems.
5 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Harvard-Westlake SchoolMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (21)
kafka10
java10
streaming10
scala9
apache-kafka9
python7
optimization7
deep-learning6
tensorflow6
machine-learning6
large-language-models6
pytorch6
parallel6
reinforcement-learning6
data-science6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mathewdhogan/dbreach-code
Dec 2022 - May 2023
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 5 months
jeremyephron/vcp
May 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:91 pushes, 3 branches in 12 days
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