Matthew Smart is a Sr. Staff Software Engineer with 11+ years at Google and a career spanning network-focused startups to global-scale frontend infrastructure. He builds systems that process data at internet scale, with deep expertise in network protocols and tooling (BGP, SNMP, NetFlow/sFlow) informed by his early role co-founding Arbor Networks. At Google he has driven frontend infrastructure for Google and Google Cloud Platform, blending low-level networking knowledge with large-scale user-facing systems. Based in San Francisco and trained at the University of Michigan, he pairs engineering rigor with product-minded pragmatism. Less obvious: his background in service-provider traffic monitoring gives him a rare perspective on observability and network-first performance trade-offs that influence how he designs cloud-facing infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MSE, Computer Science and Engineering, MSE, Computer Science and Engineering at University of Michigan
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Matthew Smart - Sr. Staff Software Engineer at Google