Matthew Rheaume
Software Engineer at Lightspark
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Rheaume is a software engineer with 14 years of experience building large-scale infrastructure, data pipelines, and native Android systems, currently working at Lightspark after a long tenure at Twitter. He led a cross-platform infrastructure team responsible for collecting trillions of mobile events per day, focusing on developer velocity, rapid iteration, and production-grade reliability. Equally at home in distributed systems and client-side development, he brings a pragmatic blend of hands-on engineering and technical leadership. A Waterloo-trained mathematician and computer scientist, he has a track record of improving performance and modernizing legacy systems at companies including Twitter, Amazon, and NVIDIA. Notably, his experience spans from kernel-level tooling to high-throughput analytics, giving him unusual breadth across the stack.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (30)
lightning10
modular10
lightning-network10
bitcoin10
rust9
parser8
minikube8
debug8
kubernetes7
debugging7
cocoa7
finagle7
parser-generator7
code-generation7
k8s6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mhrheaume/dotfiles
Jun 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:103 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 10 months
mhrheaume/rust-lightning
Oct 2023 - Nov 2024
A highly modular Bitcoin Lightning library written in Rust. It's rust-lightning, not Rusty's Lightning!
Contributions:21 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year
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