Summary
Matthew Hyndman is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable services and products across major tech companies, currently at Google in Mountain View. His background spans backend systems, machine learning-backed ranking and feed infrastructure from his time at Quora, and product-focused engineering at Amazon and mobile game companies where he worked on cross-platform clients and Django servers. Comfortable across Python, Android/iOS, and web stacks, he brings a pragmatic mix of production-grade backend development and mobile client experience. A Waterloo CS graduate, he has a track record of shipping features in high-throughput environments and solving integration challenges between ML systems and web services. Notably, his career shows an early breadth—moving between QA, server ops, and full-stack development—which gives him a hands-on perspective on reliability and deployment trade-offs.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
French, English