Matthew Tan
Software Engineer at Arista Networks
Canada
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Top SchoolMatthew Tan is a software engineer with 8 years of hands-on experience building applications, scripts, firmware, and hardware-adjacent systems, currently contributing at Arista Networks. He combines a strong academic foundation from the University of Waterloo (3.9 GPA in Computer Engineering) with practical internships across Intel, onsemi, Splunk, Sibros, and others, giving him fluency in validation, lab operations, firmware, and test automation. Passionate about PCB design and game development, he brings a maker’s curiosity to production engineering—often "trying things till they work" to bridge software and hardware. Known for quickly iterating from prototype to reliable solution, he excels at troubleshooting complex platform issues and integrating low-level systems with application-layer tooling. Based in Canada, he thrives in roles that require both embedded thinking and software craftsmanship.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, 3.9 GPA, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, 3.9 GPA at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (83)
scheduling10
opentelemetry10
splunk10
continuous-delivery10
kubernetes10
continuous-integration10
go10
telemetry10
docker10
docker-image10
plug10
collector10
continuous-testing9
monitoring9
mesos9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
matthewmodestino/container_workshop
May 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:67 commits, 64 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
matthewmodestino/outliers
Sep 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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