Matthew Steele
Software Engineer at Google
Braintree, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Steele is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building systems at Google and contributing to open-source projects in Rust and C. He works across C++, TypeScript, and Java, with past projects spanning PageSpeed Insights, network infrastructure, mod_spdy, and inking libraries used across Google products. His open-source work includes practical enhancements to rust-sdl2 and cargo-bundle—improving developer ergonomics for geometry types and refining OS-specific bundle generation for Debian and macOS. Early systems and compiler experience (cc65, Common Lisp dependency tooling) and an M.Eng. from MIT reflect a strong foundation in low-level correctness and tooling. Based in Braintree, MA, he combines product-focused engineering at scale with a knack for subtle, quality-of-life improvements that make libraries and build processes more robust.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
S.B., Computer Science, Mathematics, S.B., Computer Science, Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (21)
debugging10
debug10
assembly10
debian10
sdl10
c1110
device-emulation10
c1710
debian-packaging10
assembler10
650210
macos10
software-packaging10
rust10
emulation10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
burtonageo/cargo-bundle
May 2016 - Jan 2023
Wrap rust executables in OS-specific app bundles
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 99 commits, 106 PRs in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily worked on the `cargo-bundle` project, contributing features related to OS-specific app bundle generation. Their contributions included enhancing the functionality for Debian and macOS bundles, specifically by adding icon handling, generating necessary files for Debian packages, and implementing specific functionalities such as generating correct CFBundleShortVersionString. The user also refactored and improved the overall structure and code quality of the bundle generation process.
rustexecutableswrapapp-bundlesbundles
Rust-SDL2/rust-sdl2
May 2016 - Mar 2018
SDL2 bindings for Rust
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 8 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the `rust-sdl2` project by implementing convenience methods and operators for the `Rect` and `Point` structs. They added new functionality like calculating sizes, setting positions, and defining operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, which enhances developer experience with the library. The user also deprecated an old `contains` method, replaced it with a `contains_point` method, and added `contains_rect`. Additionally, the user added a `Hash` implementation for `Point` and `Rect` and addressed build-related issues on the macOS platform.
rustsdlsdl2
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