Matt Birkel
Software Engineer at Google
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Birkel is a software engineer with 13 years of experience building reliable, production-grade systems, currently focused on database concurrency and redundancy checking for Google's F1 distributed SQL. His background spans infrastructure and developer tooling for Search, end-to-end conversion tracking for advertising products, and embedded/autonomy work—bringing practical systems design from C++ path planning at Caterpillar to large-scale services at Google. He blends research-driven approaches with pragmatic engineering, often translating academic techniques into measurable production improvements. Matt also sustains a long-standing passion for robotics through leadership and financial stewardship of the iRobotics student organization, demonstrating an unusual mix of technical depth and operational ownership. Based in Madison, WI, he is comfortable balancing latency, developer velocity, and technical debt to deliver impactful features.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, College Prep, High School Diploma, College Prep at Peoria Notre Dame High SchoolUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
manjaro8
distributions8
pythonista6
appimage5
stash5
linux5
cmd2
robotics2
shell2
python2
react1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
birkelbot/Lockout
Feb 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
birkelbot/nextrc
May 2017 - May 2020
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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