Matt Ernst
Software Engineer at Mix Tech, Inc.
Richland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Ernst is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable recommendation engines, content classifiers, and data pipelines using Scala and Python. He has a strong background in data-intensive systems, having architected sharded MySQL/MongoDB solutions, optimized high-throughput APIs serving millions of daily requests, and reduced operational costs through profiling and targeted optimizations. His career spans startups and research—from Loomia and StumbleUpon to Mix Tech—where he has led full development lifecycles, mentored engineers, and enforced practices that sharply reduced defects. Early work in computational biochemistry at PNNL informs his scientific approach to problem solving and analytical tool design. Based in Richland, WA, he seeks teams pushing the state of the art and enjoys joining projects that aim to “kill dinosaurs” by disrupting legacy systems.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, computer science, BS, computer science at Pacific UniversityMS, computer science, MS, computer science at Washington State University
Github Skills (26)
physics9
chemistry9
python8
computational-chemistry8
toolbox7
quantum-chemistry7
jsinterop7
relic7
cheminformatics7
quantum-computing7
composite7
lag6
dynamodb6
materials-informatics6
version-control5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mattbernst/composite-thermochemistry-nwchem
Jun 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:81 commits, 3 PRs, 54 pushes in 1 year
compositenwchempython
mattbernst/ebsel
May 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:43 commits, 27 pushes, 1 issue in 1 month
apiscriptingno-morebasislag
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