Matthew Du
Senior Software Engineer at Instagram
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Du is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with over a decade of engineering experience and 3+ years focused on Android product and infrastructure at Instagram. He has driven Reels features—viewer, audio, effects, stitching and media drafts—for global launches and previously owned the in-app browser where he improved TTI by 10%, built a browser metrics framework and architected autofill. Comfortable across backend and mobile domains, his internships at Square and RemindHQ show a knack for automating high-value processes, scalable ETL, and payment-system work. He consistently mentors colleagues, measures product impact with instrumentation, and favors pragmatic engineering that improves both user experience and developer velocity. An early full-stack background and measurable performance wins hint at a builder who balances product-thinking with infrastructure expertise.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Hong Kong (HKU)Bachelor of Software Engineering, Engineering, Bachelor of Software Engineering, Engineering at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (50)
kotlin10
markdown10
static-site10
liquid10
kotlin-android10
protocol-buffers9
java9
ruby9
blog-engine9
android9
site-generator9
protobuf9
grpc9
jekyll9
batch8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
matthewdu/matthewdu.github.io
Apr 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:3 releases, 134 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 5 months
matthewdu/slack-slam
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:33 commits, 14 PRs, 32 pushes in 1 month
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