Mathew Kamkar
Senior Software Engineer at LiveKit
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMathew Kamkar is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years building backend systems and distributed services, currently focused on media infrastructure at LiveKit. He specializes in improving server performance, observability, and reliability—evidenced by contributions to LiveKit's WebRTC SFU, where he refactored node management, stats collection, and graceful shutdown for the Redis router. Previously he delivered scalable features at Medium and Evie Labs, bringing experience across systems engineering and mobile backends since early roles at BAE Systems and Apple. Based in the United States, Mathew blends deep operational instincts with pragmatic engineering, often prioritizing stability and monitoring improvements that reveal hard-to-see production issues.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Santa Monica High SchoolB.S., B.S. at University of California, Irvine
Persian, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
golang10
media10
media-services10
go10
redis9
sfu8
webrtc8
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
livekit/livekit
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
End-to-end realtime stack for connecting humans and AI
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:63 reviews, 35 commits, 49 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Mathew's commits primarily focused on refactoring and enhancing the LiveKit media server's functionality. They implemented commands and actions for node management, including listing node information and refactoring statistics gathering and storage. The user also made changes to system-level packet statistics and applied graceful shutdown procedures for the Redis router. These changes suggest a focus on improving server performance, monitoring, and stability.
aigolangwebrtcsfumedia-server
dudesahn/yearn-strategies
Jan 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:42 commits in 3 months
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