Summary
Matt Burman is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years’ experience building data-intensive, distributed systems using Rust, Go and TypeScript. He has driven production initiatives across gaming and market-data domains—introducing Kafka as a distributed KV and async platform, building OAuth/GraphQL product-agnostic services, and contributing resilience and observability (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus) at scale. Comfortable from low-latency data pipelines to web and mobile backends, he’s implemented leader election, Kafka integrations, and high-throughput subscription optimizations to stabilize critical trading and gaming services. Recently focused on growth product development in Rust, he pairs systems-level thinking with pragmatic engineering for shipping robust services. Notably, he founded a university hackathon society that scaled to national recognition, showing early aptitude for community building and shipping events. Based in the United States, Matt blends research experience in streaming algorithms with hands-on production engineering across cloud-native stacks.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at The University of Sheffield
javascript, English