Matthew Knight
Staff Software Development Engineer at Zscaler
Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Knight is a Staff Software Development Engineer with a decade of experience building embedded systems and back-end tooling, now based in Surrey, BC. He combines a formal electrical engineering background with hands-on firmware and systems work, contributing notable C-translation and compiler-level improvements to the popular Zig language and adding architecture and HAL support for Cortex-M microcontrollers in microzig. Matthew has progressed through roles at Elastic, Sysdig, and now Zscaler, bringing production-grade C and systems expertise to cloud and security contexts. He’s equally comfortable authoring low-level register definitions and fixing ISR/clock configuration bugs as he is shaping backend features, and his personal projects live on Codeberg where he continues exploring Zig for embedded development.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
Github Skills (13)
embedded10
zig10
stm10
microcontroller10
hal10
compiler-development10
lpc9
ebpf9
registers9
programming-language9
c179
interrupt9
nrf527
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ZigEmbeddedGroup/microzig
May 2022 - Dec 2022
Unified abstraction layer and HAL for several microcontrollers
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:121 reviews, 19 commits, 325 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the development of a unified abstraction layer and HAL for various microcontrollers within the `microzig` project. Their work included adding support for new CPU architectures, specifically Cortex-M0plus, and addressing missing HAL components. The user also made updates, such as fixing issues related to interrupt service routines (ISRs) and clock configuration. Furthermore, they generated register definitions for specific microcontrollers like STM32F103, STM32F303, STM32F407 and STM32F429.
adazig-packageprintfmicrocontrollerzig
ziglang/zig
May 2020 - Dec 2022
General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 30 commits, 26 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the `ziglang/zig` project by implementing and refactoring code related to the C translation features. They added functionality for scoped typedefs, moved duplicated code into common functions, and updated code to handle 64-bit immediates. Further, they added bpf() syscall and supporting structs, and added more op codes. These contributions directly support the compiler's ability to translate C code to Zig.
purposecompilertoolchainzigprogramming-language
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