Matt Zimmer is a seasoned software engineer and engineering leader with 14+ years of experience building high-throughput, reliable systems used by tens of millions worldwide, including contributions to Netflix streaming, StumbleUpon personalization, Intuit TurboTax, and EMC datacenter tooling. He blends hands-on backend engineering—demonstrated by work on Netflix's Atlas time-series project—with people leadership that emphasizes autonomy, agile principles, and diverse teams. Comfortable oscillating between individual contributor and manager roles, he has led teams that collect and process real-time telemetry and playback data at massive scale. A former professional musician who records in his spare time, he brings creativity and discipline to complex system design and team culture.
14 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Bachelors at University of Southern California
Contributions:31 commits, 56 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the `netflix/atlas` repository, which is a time series database. Their work focused on enhancing the error graph image generation, making it more accessible by differentiating user and system errors with distinct colors and text prefixes. They also set the Scala version to 2.12.3 to resolve a dependency issue. Furthermore, the user improved diagnostic messages for LWC evaluation, added descriptions for specific math functions, and added a step parameter to `DataSource` within the evaluation component.
Code repository for the Oberlin College Computer Science 2024 Winter Term p2p Software Application Project.
Contributions:79 reviews, 42 PRs, 58 pushes in 4 months
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