Matias Cudich
Principal Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatias Cudich is a Principal Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building client infrastructure and web-focused systems, currently serving as Area Tech Lead for Client Infrastructure at YouTube/Google. He combines deep front-end expertise (JavaScript, CSS, HTML, prototype/mootools/jquery) with back-end fluency in Ruby/Rails and systems work, and his career includes founding a startup (Episodic) and early product roles at Powerset and BEA. Matias is comfortable spanning product and engineering: he has led UI teams, driven AJAX interaction patterns, and defined query strategies for search. He contributes to notable open-source projects—most recently enhancing NSOrderedSet functionality in Swift’s core Foundation libraries—demonstrating attention to data structures and memory semantics beyond typical web work. Known for shipping practical, standards-compliant interfaces and robust backend implementations, he brings entrepreneurial instincts to large-scale platform problems. His background in economics from UC Berkeley gives him a pragmatic, metrics-oriented approach to technical decision making.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Economics, Bachelor's degree Economics at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (6)
data-structures10
swift10
data-structure10
foundation10
algorithms9
testing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
swiftlang/swift-corelibs-foundation
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
The Foundation Project, providing core utilities, internationalization, and OS independence
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Matias primarily focused on implementing features and fixing bugs related to the `NSOrderedSet` class within the Foundation framework. They added functionality for initialization, object manipulation (inserting and removing objects), and sorting. The commits demonstrate a deep understanding of data structures, particularly ordered sets, and how they interact with Swift's memory management. The contributions also included implementing additional initializers and testing the new functionalities.
tvostranslationinternationalizationfoundationindependence
mcudich/HeckelDiff
Nov 2016 - Jul 2020
A fast Swift diffing library.
Contributions:7 releases, 40 commits, 29 PRs in 3 years 8 months
swiftdiffing
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