Matthew Harden
System Engineer at Google
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Harden is a seasoned System Engineer based in San Jose with 11 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining scalable infrastructure at Google. He brings deep expertise in backend systems and monitoring, evidenced by open-source contributions to Vitess where he improved health checks, Prometheus integration, and transaction handling for a widely used MySQL clustering project. Prior to Google, he spent a long tenure as an Automation Engineer at Monsanto, giving him a rare combination of industrial automation discipline and cloud-scale systems engineering. Matthew holds a BS in Information Technology from Washington University in St. Louis and excels at turning reliability challenges into measurable operational improvements. Colleagues appreciate his pragmatic problem-solving and steady delivery on complex, production-critical systems.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Information Technology, BS, Information Technology at Washington University in St. Louis
Github Skills (8)
go10
mysql10
testing9
prometheus9
database-administration9
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
cnc7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
vitessio/vitess
Dec 2015 - Mar 2018
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 17 PRs, 1 push in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Matthew contributed to the Vitess database clustering system by fixing bugs and integrating new features. They addressed issues related to transaction start times, health checks, and Prometheus integration. Code changes included modifications to healthcheck, and prometheus integration components, demonstrating a focus on improving the system's functionality and monitoring capabilities.
mysqltidbhorizontal-scalingsqlvitess
nerdatmath/vitess
Dec 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 37 pushes, 26 branches in 2 years 3 months
mysql-databasesmysqlvitessscalevite
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