Summary
Matt Ginzton is a Principal Software Engineer in San Francisco with 15 years of experience building complex systems across startups and large enterprises. He brings deep systems and virtualization expertise honed over a long tenure at VMware—spanning virtualization engines, GPU and client hypervisors, and cross-platform core libraries—and now leads architecture and delivery at Google. As an engineering cofounder at bebop.co he focused on making enterprise software that works for humans, pairing product-minded design with hands-on implementation. He combines low-level systems fluency (C/C++, kernel and graphics work) with web and cloud-scale engineering (Java, Python, REST, databases), and has a track record of shipping pragmatic solutions from prototype to production. Notably, his background includes research and teaching at Stanford and early contributions to widely used virtualization and build systems, reflecting both academic depth and practical impact.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Stanford University
German, Italian, English