Matt K
Staff AI Engineer at Google
Greater Houston United States
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Top SchoolMatt K is a Staff AI Engineer with a decade of experience building ML, infra, and distributed systems—currently advancing AI at scale within Google after leading applied AI and custom ML solutions across Google Cloud and DeepMind projects. He blends deep research instincts with pragmatic engineering, focusing on healthcare and life sciences ML optimizations and production ML infrastructure. His background spans cloud-native architecture, gigascale systems, and hands-on roles from core software engineering at Toptal to fintech cluster orchestration at GFT, reflecting strong cross-domain delivery. An active systems hacker, he contributes to low-level projects like a Rust implementation of the Ziesha protocol, applying rigorous QA and synchronization logic typically seen in blockchain and distributed consensus work. Trained in computer science with a cryptography specialization from UT Austin, he combines academic rigor with product-minded execution and a history of founding and organizing technical communities in Houston.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science B.S Cryptography, Computer Science B.S Cryptography at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (18)
testing10
cryptocurrency10
staking10
blockchain10
rust10
binary-search9
zeroth9
zkp9
zk9
database6
django-rest-framework6
sqlalchemy6
flask-sqlalchemy6
gunicorn6
python6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ziesha-network/bazuka
May 2022 - May 2022
Rust implementation of Ziesha protocol
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 7 commits, 8 PRs in 3 days
Contributions summary:Matt contributed to the back-end logic of the Ziesha protocol implementation. Their work includes implementing binary search for block synchronization and adding tests to ensure the correct handling of insufficient funds and invalid transactions. They also added a check for the proof-of-work target of blocks during synchronization from a peer. Further contributions involve creating a seeds module and adding a script for seed generation.
proof-of-workrustzero-knowledgeblockchainzksnarks
n1rna/bitcoin-address-oracle
May 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:45 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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