Matt Smith
Software Engineer at Meta
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Smith is a performance-focused software engineer with 10 years of experience building developer tooling and low-latency systems across major cloud and consumer platforms. He’s driven large migrations and platform rollouts—from moving GraphQL services and infra to CDK at Twitch to rewriting AWS build tooling in Rust that cut command times by 98%—and currently works on infrastructure at Meta. Comfortable across backend, CI/CD, and build systems, he has a knack for reducing toil and tail latency (e.g., a request-hedging library that cut tail dependency latency by up to 86%). He pairs a Georgia Tech master’s in computing systems with electrical engineering roots from Clemson, giving him both systems-level rigor and hardware-adjacent intuition. Notably, he blends hands-on optimization with cross-functional leadership, routinely enabling tens of thousands of developers to ship faster and with fewer manual interventions.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering; minor in Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering; minor in Computer Science at Clemson UniversityLexington High SchoolMaster's degree Computer Science Computing Systems Specialization, Master's degree Computer Science Computing Systems Specialization at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (42)
visual-studio-code10
proton10
electron10
microsoft10
typescript10
dotnet10
editor10
steam10
cloud-computing9
orleans9
linux9
distributed-systems9
windows9
dotnet-core9
actor-model9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
QueenCitySmitty/learning
Jul 2018 - Jun 2023
Contributions:8 PRs, 56 pushes, 6 branches in 5 years
RiskRunner0/DotFiles
Jul 2023 - Jan 2026
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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