Matt Crane
Software Engineer at Airbnb
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Crane is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in information retrieval, recommender systems, and machine learning infrastructure. Currently on Airbnb’s ML infrastructure team, he focuses on developer workflows and tooling to make ML teams more productive. Previously at Instacart he architected a multi-year vision, mentored engineers, and rewrote a feature store in Rust that cut p99 latency by 10x while using far fewer instances. At Meta he diagnosed large-scale delivery and ranking inefficiencies and led backend migrations, often serving as the team’s onboarding and hiring point person. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and brings a research-first mindset—his academic work produced a novel anytime, score-safe document scoring algorithm and deep attention to reproducibility. Based in San Francisco, he blends rigorous research experience with pragmatic, production-grade engineering across multiple languages and systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at University of Otago
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (69)
lucene10
information-retrieval10
isomorphic10
dom10
reactive9
webassembly9
rust9
python9
gpu9
cpp9
ordered9
logging9
shell8
cli8
numpy8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
lintool/JASS
Apr 2015 - Jan 2017
Anytime Ranking for Impact-Ordered Indexes
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 1 year 9 months
reactindexesjavascriptrankingnodejs
snapbug/memcache_exporter
Mar 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 7 months
exporterprometheus-exportermemcacheprometheusmetrics
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