Matthew Finkel
Senior Software Engineer II, SRE at ZipRecruiter
Portugal
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Top SchoolMatthew Finkel is a Senior Software Engineer II (SRE) with over a decade of engineering experience and four years focused on SRE roles at ZipRecruiter, now based in Portugal. He designs and maintains highly scaled, fault-tolerant Kubernetes infrastructure on AWS Spot, primarily writing production services in Go while also working with Perl, Kubernetes manifests, and Docker. Matthew has rotated across multiple teams, giving him broad hands-on exposure to stacks spanning data pipelines to end-product infrastructure. He founded and ran an internal working group that produced a weekly organization-wide technical briefing and contributed to the company’s public engineering blog, showing a knack for cross-functional communication. Early career roles—from embedded QA systems for a neutrino experiment to in-country tech consulting in Haiti—demonstrate practical problem-solving in constrained environments. He combines operational rigor with clear documentation and a track record of cost-efficient, production-grade systems.
4 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BEng Computer Engineering, BEng Computer Engineering at University of Minnesota
English, Haitian Creole
Stackoverflow
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15kreached
1answer
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Github Skills (36)
pytorch10
named-entity-recognition10
sequence-labeling10
word-embeddings10
machine-learning10
language-processing10
simple-framework10
natural-language-processing10
nlp10
kubernetes-operator9
dataops9
scale9
spotify9
data-analysis8
grpc8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
flairNLP/flair
Mar 2024 - Jul 2024
A very simple framework for state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Contributions:3 reviews, 4 comments in 3 months
nlppytorchnamed-entity-recognitionartsemantic-role-labeling
flyteorg/flyte
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Scalable and flexible workflow orchestration platform that seamlessly unifies data, ML and analytics stacks.
Contributions:1 comment in 1 year 2 months
pythondatamission-criticalgrpcproduction-grade
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