Matt Zimmer
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Greater Cleveland United States
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Top SchoolMatt 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.
15 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Bachelors at University of Southern California
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
timeseries-database10
javas10
java10
scala10
akka9
api8
apidoc8
performance-monitor7
performance-analytics7
performance-monitoring7
performance-measurement7
performance-tuning7
performance-analysis7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix/atlas
Aug 2017 - Aug 2019
In-memory dimensional time series database.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions: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.
timeseries-database
zimmermatt/sourcegraph
Jun 2019 - Feb 2020
Code search and navigation tool (self-hosted)
Contributions:99 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
hostedpythoncode-searchnavigation
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