Matt Leaverton
Principal Software Engineer at Glowforge
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Leaverton is a Principal Software Engineer in Houston with 12 years of experience building and leading complex software and automation projects across startups and industry leaders. He blends hands-on systems and backend engineering (Rust, Python, C/C++, SQL) with program and product ownership, having led multi-project programs and optimized core pipelines by up to 100x. Comfortable across firmware, machine vision, embedded systems, and cloud/edge services, he has driven cross-disciplinary collaboration with electrical, mechanical, and product teams to deliver manufacturable solutions. Known for creating developer-friendly frameworks and deployment tooling that cut operational overhead (for example an 80% faster Python deployment at Facebook), he pairs performance-minded optimizations with process and documentation improvements. Matt also mentors engineers and builds organizational memory to scale teams and retain institutional knowledge.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (7)
sender5
code-editor3
cnc2
python2
mesos1
pure-python1
scheduler1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mattleaverton/Synthipede
Oct 2013 - Sep 2022
Contributions:17 commits, 1 push in 9 years
mattleaverton/mattleaverton.github.io
Aug 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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