Summary
Matthew Maclean is a Director of Engineering in New York with 14 years of backend and infrastructure experience building reliable, scalable platforms across finance and research-driven companies. He has led platform and observability efforts—running centralized logging and metrics pipelines, maintaining Elasticsearch and Kafka services, and introducing Datadog practices—while also shipping cloud-onboarding tooling and GCP authorization sync systems. At Two Sigma and Palantir he combined hands-on Go and Java engineering with tech leadership, mentoring interview programs and guiding cross-functional teams toward safer, faster delivery. He started in controls and robotics at Waterloo, which informs a practical systems-thinking approach to complex workflows and automation. Known for translating messy, free-text data into usable maps and tools (e.g., NYC subway accessibility mapping), he pairs deep technical chops with a knack for turning operational complexity into developer-friendly platforms.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Coursera
Stanford University Online Courses
Newmarket High School
BSE Software Engineering, BSE Software Engineering at University of Waterloo