Matthew Crenshaw
Staff Engineer at Clear Street
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Crenshaw is a Staff Engineer in New York with over a decade of production experience building backend and mobile systems, and 17 years of broader development and leadership experience. He leads CSC Operations Engineering at Clear Street and previously owned distributed metrics and systems at a quantitative trading firm, where he managed in-house telemetry, IP multicast, and multi-language libraries. As a co-founder he shipped dozen iOS apps that reached #1 grossing and generated over $1M GMV, demonstrating product instincts alongside deep engineering craft. He contributes to open-source monitoring tooling such as influxdata/telegraf, adding system-level metrics and robustness to critical plugins. Comfortable across Go, Python, Swift, Java and DevOps tooling, he combines hands-on coding with mentoring and operational ownership for high-throughput, low-latency systems.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at North Carolina State University
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Github Skills (18)
monitoring10
telegraf10
go10
golang10
metric10
socket9
system-calls8
error-handling8
json7
macos6
uiimagepickercontroller6
php6
twitter-oauth6
uiimageview6
command-line-interface6
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
influxdata/telegraf
Feb 2019 - Aug 2019
Agent for collecting, processing, aggregating, and writing metrics, logs, and other arbitrary data.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 42 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Matthew contributed to the `influxdata/telegraf` repository by implementing new features and fixing bugs in multiple plugins. Their work included adding multicast support to the `socket_listener` input plugin, adding pagefault data to the `procstat` input plugin, and implementing a fix for reloading in the `tail` input plugin. The user also fixed a reload panic in the `socket_listener` input plugin and added a memory usage field to the `procstat` input plugin, demonstrating an understanding of system metrics and data collection.
agentreportingcollectingagent-servertelegraf
clear-street/reinforcer
Jan 2024 - Jul 2026
codegen for easy adoption of resiliency patterns
Contributions:2 releases, 6 reviews, 9 PRs in 2 years 5 months
code-generationcodegen
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