Matthew Nibecker is a technical leader based in San Francisco with 11 years of hands-on software engineering experience, currently driving engineering at Brim Security. He blends backend systems expertise with a practical focus on data processing and time-series correctness—evidenced by contributions to the popular brimdata/zui project where he improved time conversion precision, search statistics, and ingest pipelines. Matthew’s background spans startups and product engineering roles from co-founding Startlab to building data-focused features at Jut and FiveStars, giving him a strong mix of entrepreneurial grit and production-grade delivery. Comfortable shipping fixes that matter (linting, tests, ingest reliability) as well as leading teams, he pairs a Computer Science education with business communication training to bridge technical and stakeholder needs.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Bachelor's degree, Business/Corporate Communications, Bachelor's degree, Business/Corporate Communications at California State University-Channel Islands
Zui is a powerful desktop application for exploring and working with data. The official front-end to the Zed lake.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:65 reviews, 44 commits, 126 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on improving data processing and time-related functionalities within the Zui application, addressing conversion precision issues and optimizing search statistics calculations. They made changes to the `statsReceiver.js`, `SearchStats.js`, `searchStats.js`, and `Time.js` files. These changes involved refining time conversions, implementing duration calculations, and fixing linting and test errors. Furthermore, the user also worked on getting the ingest functionality working again by updating the ingest process.
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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Matthew Nibecker - Technical Leader at Brim Security, Inc