Matt Mukerjee
Engineering Manager at Cloudflare
Greater Burlington Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Mukerjee is an engineering manager with 14 years of experience building and leading teams that deliver production-grade networking software and cloud-native products. He combines hands-on systems engineering—rooted in a CMU PhD focused on computer networks—with pragmatic product planning and incident-led reliability work, currently heading Cloudflare’s Magic Cloud Networking team after Nefeli’s acquisition. His background spans research and industry roles from Google to Nefeli, where he progressed from software engineer to principal engineer and manager, shipping multicloud networking features. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved documentation, build systems, and tests for the well-known BESS software switch, demonstrating attention to maintainability and cross-architecture compatibility. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex distributed systems research into practical, timely customer outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at Dartmouth CollegeMaster of Engineering - MEng Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science at Cornell UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (11)
dpdk10
build-automation10
documentation10
cprogramming-language9
makefile9
gnu-make9
c-language9
python8
cicd7
docker6
dockers6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
NetSys/bess
Jul 2018 - Dec 2019
BESS: Berkeley Extensible Software Switch
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 10 PRs, 9 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to documentation improvements, clarifying module functionalities and examples within the BESS framework. They also made build system adjustments to correctly compile DPDK for specific architectures, ensuring compatibility. Additionally, the user updated configuration files, such as the one used for the Vagrant image creation, and implemented tests to improve the overall reliability. These contributions suggest a combined focus on maintaining and improving the codebase, as well as contributing to infrastructure.
berkeleybessswitchextensible
mukerjee/nes-2a03
Feb 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:41 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 years
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