Matthew Norman
Staff Software Engineer at GoFundMe
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Norman is a Staff Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience building scalable, consistency-focused systems and data pipelines for high-volume products. Trained as an experimental physicist (Caltech BS, UCSD PhD), he combines rigorous statistical thinking and Monte Carlo–based analysis with hands-on engineering in Python, C++, and distributed datastores like Cassandra and DynamoDB. At SurveyMonkey he architected real-time analysis and revenue-tracking pipelines for million+ respondent surveys, and now applies that expertise to GoFundMe’s platform problems. Known for root-cause-driven performance tuning and pragmatic design, he bridges stakeholder needs and low-level implementation details to deliver reliable, high-throughput services. An analyst at heart, he frequently leverages pandas and custom C++ frameworks to squeeze meaningful signals from noisy, large-scale data.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San DiegoBS, Applied Physics, BS, Applied Physics at California Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (31)
san9
notable7
lucee6
historical5
jdownloader5
finance5
python5
cms4
business-process4
statistics4
mdm4
pypy4
backbonejs4
management4
usability3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
codeforsanjose/BuildingPermitsPlus
Nov 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:40 commits, 12 PRs, 24 pushes in 7 months
recordsweb-interfacegoalhistoricalhistorical-data
opensmc/housing-platform
Aug 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 4 months
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