Matthew Suozzo
Senior Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Suozzo is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with 12 years of experience building reliable backend systems and improving developer tooling. At Google since 2015, he focuses on robust, deterministic behavior and testability—skills reflected in contributions to high-profile open-source projects like CPython, setuptools, and Google’s yapf formatter. He has a strong testing and QA mindset, having helped harden Python’s mock/testing infrastructure and added safeguards that surface subtle bugs. Matthew combines performance-oriented engineering (optimizing gspread API usage) with careful API and packaging work to reduce nondeterminism in builds and installs. He holds a BS in Computer Science and an MS in Computer Security from Columbia, bringing both practical production experience and a security-conscious perspective to his work. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful fixes that improve developer experience and long-term maintainability.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Columbia University - Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied ScienceMaster of Science - MS, Computer Security, Master of Science - MS, Computer Security at Columbia EngineeringHunter College High School
Github Skills (17)
google-sheets-api10
pytest10
python10
setuptools10
gspread10
testing10
spreadsheet10
mocking10
yapf10
test-automation10
api-design9
apim9
api9
build-system8
google8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
google/yapf
Oct 2017 - May 2021
A formatter for Python files
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 6 PRs, 8 comments in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on improving the `yapf` code formatter for Python. They addressed issues related to formatting list/dict/set comprehensions and single-argument function calls with generators. Several commits involved adjusting split penalties and the overall formatting logic. Further contributions involved modifying test cases and updating documentation related to style flags and settings.
pythonformattergoogle
burnash/gspread
Aug 2015 - Mar 2016
Google Sheets Python API
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 10 PRs, 14 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on optimizing and refactoring the `gspread` library's core functionality, specifically addressing performance bottlenecks in methods related to row and column value retrieval and insertion operations. They improved the efficiency of these operations by utilizing range-based API requests, reducing the number of individual API calls. Furthermore, the user fixed failing tests and addressed encoding issues, improving the reliability and usability of the library.
google-sheetgoogle-sheetspythongspreadgoogle-sheets-api-v4
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