Matthew Smillie
Software Engineer at Treasure Data, Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Smillie is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years building and operating large-scale distributed systems, from cloud networking at Joyent to high-throughput job queues and profiling at Slack. He blends hands-on systems engineering and incident-analysis expertise with startup agility, having prototyped features and built infrastructure at early-stage Jeli and led incident-knowledge efforts at Treasure Data. Comfortable across kernel-to-cloud and front-end-to-backend concerns, he has a track record of modernizing databases, scaling production services, and diving into on-call firefights to stabilize critical systems. Trained in computer science and statistical NLP (MSc, Edinburgh), he’s also an enthusiastic tinkerer—equally at home soldering hardware as he is instrumenting software to make system behavior more observable and learnable.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Informatics, Statistical NLP, MSc, Informatics, Statistical NLP at The University of EdinburghBSc (Honours), Computer Science, BSc (Honours), Computer Science at Queen's University
French, English
Github Skills (115)
idris9
rust9
docker-engine9
docker9
e-ink9
arduino-library8
cargo8
bluetooth-low-energy8
triton8
rust-lang7
yang7
winston7
compiler7
child-process7
health7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
notmatt/tmk_keyboard
Aug 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
controllerfirmwareavratmelusb
notmatt/beeline-nodejs
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Automatic Honeycomb instrumentation for node.js applications
Contributions:5 reviews, 1 PR, 12 comments in 1 day
instrumentationnode-jshoneycombnodejsjs-applications
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