Matt Elder is a CTO and research-driven software engineer with 11+ years building systems that sit at the intersection of ML, program analysis, and human-centered tools. His career spans research labs and startups to Google, where he shipped machine-learning anomaly detection for richly structured Knowledge Graph data and led prototype teams architecting deep search and app-content extraction. He specializes in designing cognitive-friendly developer and user interfaces—favoring generative toolkits and composable systems over monolithic products—and has published work in static/dynamic analysis and abstract interpretation. Comfortable across languages and environments, he’s delivered everything from large-scale ontologized data pipelines and binary testing toolkits to 3D visualization and CAVE-based molecular editors. Based in Oakland, he pairs rigorous mathematical thinking with hands-on engineering: think hard and make things work.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
BS Mathematics and Computer Science, BS Mathematics and Computer Science at University of South Carolina
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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