Matthew Zito
Senior Software Development Engineer (SDE III) at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Zito is a Senior Software Development Engineer with seven years of experience building large-scale distributed systems and performance-first frontends, currently at AWS. He blends deep systems-level interests—compilers, static analysis, Linux kernel hacking, and C libraries for async I/O—with hands-on product work such as architecting micro-frontends, design systems, and client-side caching for high-data webapps. At HawkSoft he led frontend architecture, accessibility initiatives, and an internal TypeScript/npm ecosystem; earlier roles span high-performance scientific and government platforms where he optimized data pipelines and cloud-native build/deploy flows. Matthew is an avid open-source author and enjoys low-level problem solving (he sometimes solves LeetCode in x86 assembly), which informs pragmatic, testable engineering decisions. Based in Seattle, he pairs a relentless curiosity for tooling and OS design with a practical track record of shipping resilient services and developer-friendly libraries. Notably, his background reveals an unusual mix of production-scale frontend engineering and kernel-/systems-level craftsmanship.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Texas at Austin
English
Github Skills (200)
trello10
windows10
datasets10
bids10
malware10
visual-studio10
data-validation10
linux10
chromium10
browser10
editor10
firefox10
electron10
typescript10
brave10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
exbotanical/toulouse
Aug 2021 - Dec 2024
Contributions:25 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 5 months
exbotanical/zito.fyi
Aug 2021 - Mar 2025
My current blog
Contributions:18 PRs, 69 pushes, 10 branches in 3 years 7 months
gatsbyreactblog-enginessrjekyll
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