Matt Smith
Software Engineer at Meta
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMatt Smith is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building multimodal LLMs as a Machine Learning Engineer at Meta. He brings deep ML and production engineering experience from multiple roles at Yelp, where he shipped NLP, computer vision, and user behavior models and improved search ranking and data-quality tooling. A Waterloo BMath dual major in CS and Combinatorics & Optimization, he pairs strong theoretical foundations with practical systems work—evident from contributions to deployment tooling like dh-virtualenv packaging improvements. Comfortable across the stack, he focuses on reliability, maintainability, and diagnostics for large-scale ML systems. Based in Old Toronto, he blends research-oriented modeling with hands-on engineering that moves models into production.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Mathematics - BMath, Dual major in Honours Computer Science and Honours Combinatorics & Optimization, With Distinction - Dean's Honours List, Bachelor of Mathematics - BMath, Dual major in Honours Computer Science and Honours Combinatorics & Optimization, With Distinction - Dean's Honours List at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (11)
sed10
deb10
python10
debian10
testing10
automation9
automations9
regular-expression9
packaging9
bash8
subprocess8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
spotify/dh-virtualenv
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Python virtualenvs in Debian packages
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Matt focused on improving the reliability and maintainability of the virtualenv package. Their contributions included updating shebang handling, fixing line lengths, and addressing issues introduced by those fixes. These changes primarily involved modifying Python scripts and test files within the `dh_virtualenv` package, demonstrating a focus on deployment and packaging aspects.
debian-packagespythonpython3dh-virtualenvdebian
mjksmith/mjksmith.github.io
Jan 2015 - Jun 2023
Contributions:16 pushes in 8 years 6 months
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