Matthew Ziegelbaum
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google, Inc.
Village of Great Neck, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Ziegelbaum is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google with 17 years of professional experience building reliable software and firmware. He blends front-end expertise in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS with deep low-level work on embedded systems and firmware—contributing configuration and hardware adaptations to the prominent coreboot project for Google "hatch" boards. Based in Great Neck, NY, he has a long tenure at Google that began with internships and progressed through impactful engineering roles. Matthew is comfortable navigating both hardware constraints (fan control, PCIe/I2C settings, power limits) and user-facing interfaces, making him effective at cross-domain engineering. He also has roots in community-driven projects from his time at OpenHatch and student leadership at Johns Hopkins, reflecting a commitment to open collaboration and mentorship. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that bridge firmware detail and product needs.
17 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins University
Github Skills (13)
c1710
firmware10
bios10
embedded10
server-configuration10
configurations10
system-configuration10
c1110
sys10
hardware10
boot10
pcie9
i2c9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
coreboot/coreboot
Oct 2020 - Oct 2021
Read-only mirror of https://review.coreboot.org/coreboot.git. We don't handle Pull Requests.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the configuration and adaptation of the coreboot firmware for specific Google "hatch" reference board variants (ambassador, genesis, scout). Their work involved modifying configuration files (`overridetree.cb`) to tailor hardware settings such as USB ports, I2C configurations, and power limits. They also updated fan control tables and set the correct PCIe and I2C configurations for these specific variants, ensuring correct functionality.
corebootfirmwarereviewpull-requestsbootloader
ziegs/prezto
Jul 2015 - Dec 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 6 months
shellconfiguration-frameworkzsh-pluginzsh
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