Matthew Loring
Principal Software Engineer at Snowflake
Redwood City, California, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Loring is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building distributed systems, databases, and language/compiler tooling, currently leading generative AI and search integration efforts at Snowflake. He has deep hands-on experience across low-latency vector search, semantic embeddings, HTAP query processing, and large-scale crawl/indexing platforms from roles at Snowflake, Neeva, and Google. Matthew excels at designing infrastructure that bridges research and production—shipping indexing, hybrid retrieval, adaptive scans, and online indexing features for real-world workloads. He’s comfortable at both system and team foundations, having started teams, hiring processes, and platform components in early-stage environments. Notably, his background spans compiler intern work on ES6 features to production runtime and Node/V8 performance tuning, giving him a rare cross-stack view of performance and language design. Based in Redwood City, he brings pragmatic engineering to complex problems at the intersection of databases, search, and AI.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
A.B. A&S - Computer Science, A.B. A&S - Computer Science at Cornell University
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Github Skills (116)
windows10
distributed-tracing10
authentication10
google-cloud10
google-auth10
trace10
javascript10
client-library10
linux10
latency10
jwt10
napi10
js10
stackdriver10
node-gyp10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
matthewloring/validjson
Jan 2020 - Aug 2022
A golang linter for ensuring structs with json tags have valid types for json serialization
Contributions:3 releases, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 6 months
golangjson-serializationlinterstructsserialization
matthewloring/cloud-debug-nodejs
Sep 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:434 pushes, 217 branches, 13 tags in 1 year 11 months
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