Matthew Smith
Software Engineer at Meta
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Smith is a seasoned software engineer with over 15 years of experience building storage, infrastructure, and AI/ML systems, now working on inference, training, and acceleration at Meta. He has a deep background in distributed storage and Kubernetes-native operators from his hands-on work at Datera and DataRobot, and contributed notable back-end integrations to the OpenStack Cinder ecosystem, improving driver features and scalability. Comfortable across Python, Go, and Rust, he has built drivers, SDKs, deployment tooling, and internal performance pipelines while also automating complex test and deployment workflows. Based in Colorado Springs, he brings production-grade systems thinking from kernel and large-scale fleet work to cloud-native storage and AI platforms, with a chemistry degree that hints at a methodical, experimental approach to engineering.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Chemistry, B.A. Chemistry at The University of Texas at DallasChemistry, Chemistry at Case Western Reserve University
Github Skills (12)
management10
api-rest10
rest-api10
openstack10
volumes10
python10
api-design10
iscsi10
restful-api10
cloud-infrastructure9
infrastructure9
testing8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/cinder
Feb 2016 - Mar 2018
OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the Datera driver, focusing on integrating and updating the driver to support various API versions and features. Their work involved modifying core driver functionalities, including volume creation, extension, and deletion, alongside implementing features like ACLs, IP Pools, Multipath support, and retype functionality. The user also addressed scalability and bug fixes, and added support for Glance image membership checks. This indicates a strong focus on enhancing the driver's capabilities and improving its stability within the OpenStack environment.
cinderblockchainopendevblock-storageopenstack
Datera/go-sdk
Jan 2017 - Jul 2019
Datera Golang SDK
Contributions:136 commits, 2 PRs, 95 pushes in 2 years 5 months
golangsdkgolang-sdk
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