Matthew Venz
Staff Data Engineer At Zendesk
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Venz is a Staff Data Engineer at Zendesk with eight years of professional experience and a decade-plus background in Scala and functional programming dating back to 2010. He specializes in data ingestion and stream processing—having built production pipelines with Akka, Spark, Kafka, Lambda and AWS services—and advocates for event streams as the source of truth. Matthew combines pragmatic engineering discipline with strong attention to maintainability and type-level techniques (Shapeless) to make data processing both robust and adaptable. His career spans consultative and in-house roles across fintech, games, and large online platforms, and a four-year stint living and working in Japan that sharpened his communication and cross-cultural collaboration. Colleagues rely on him to tame complex data flows and deliver solutions that reduce long-term operational friction.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Monash University
Github Skills (25)
avro10
sink10
producer10
daemon10
maxwell10
cdc9
json9
kafka-producer8
kafka8
scala8
mysql8
buildkite7
gocd7
continuous-integration7
docker7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mattvenz/backpressure-sensor
May 2022 - May 2022
Measure backpressure in reactive streams pipelines
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
streamsreactive-streamsmeasurepipelinesreactive
mattvenz/vesper
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
🛵 Golang Middleware for AWS Lambda
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 days
golangaws-lambdaawsmiddlewaregolang-middleware
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