Matthew Alvarez
Principal Software Engineer at GitHub
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Alvarez is a Principal Software Engineer with a decade of experience building and scaling production systems, currently at GitHub after leading machine learning engineering at Toast. He combines a strong academic foundation—MS in Computer Science from Northwestern and a BS from UCF—with hands-on roles from senior engineer to principal, bridging software and ML domains. Matthew has progressed rapidly into leadership positions, shipping ML-driven features and platform capabilities that connect data science workflows to production services. Based in Chicago, he brings practical experience in both startups and enterprise environments, comfortable with end-to-end delivery from model development to reliable deployment. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who mentors teams while driving architectural improvements. He’s pursuing graduate-level interests in management and software development, signaling a blend of technical depth and growing product/people leadership.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at The Graduate School at Northwestern UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Central Florida
English
Github Skills (4)
artificial-intelligence7
go5
llm4
internet-of-things3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
refit-ml/refit-helmchart
Sep 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:23 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
refit-ml/refit
Jun 2020 - Mar 2021
REFIT: Artificial Intelligence for the Internet of Things
Contributions:21 releases, 5 reviews, 261 commits in 8 months
artificial-intelligenceinternet-of-things
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