Summary
Matthew Kayala is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience, currently at Google where he leads work on converting unstructured place-related content into structured data. His career at Google spans roles from Software Engineer to Senior Staff, reflecting deep expertise in production-scale data extraction, ML-informed parsing, and systems engineering. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from UC Irvine and earlier built domain-specific software for healthcare and elder services, giving him a rare blend of research rigor and real-world product delivery. Known for bridging academic research (predicting chemical reaction mechanisms and bioinformatics collaborations) with large-scale engineering, he excels at turning complex, noisy data into reliable, actionable systems. Based in Belmont, Massachusetts, he brings both leadership and hands-on implementation experience to data-centric infrastructure challenges.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at University of Rhode Island
University of California, Irvine