Matthias Görgens
Engineering Manager at Mozak
Singapore
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Top SchoolMatthias Görgens is an engineering manager with 18 years of experience blending functional programming, systems engineering and finance-focused research. He has held senior roles across finance and technology firms—including XTX Markets, Goldman Sachs and Bloomberg—and now leads engineering at Mozak from Singapore. A hands-on contributor to core open-source projects like CPython and libfuse, he brings low-level C and Rust expertise to production systems and build/CI robustness. Matthias has recently focused on cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs, pairing theoretical math training with practical VM and tooling work (e.g., contributions to a STARK-based VM). Colleagues know him for fixing subtle, safety-critical bugs (use-after-free, undefined C behaviour) and for improving developer tooling and CI to make complex systems more maintainable.
18 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at University of OxfordMathematics, Mathematics at Otto-von-Guericke-Universität MagdeburgAbitur, Math, Physics, English, Abitur, Math, Physics, English at Werner-von-Siemens-Gymnasium Magdeburg
German, English, Turkish, Russian
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Github Skills (35)
xapi10
debug10
assembly10
python10
testing10
linux10
build-system10
virtual-machine10
c-programming10
c1110
c1710
automation10
cryptography10
automations10
rust10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
libfuse/libfuse
Mar 2023 - Mar 2024
The reference implementation of the Linux FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) interface
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:31 reviews, 24 PRs, 97 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Matthias primarily focused on improving the `libfuse` project's functionality and maintainability. They addressed a critical bug related to auto-unmounting, ensuring it worked correctly even without the 'allow_other' option, and refactored the code to handle potential use-after-free warnings. Furthermore, they implemented a workaround for a musl bug affecting mount directories with whitespace and updated the CI to use a newer version of meson. They also improved the project's overall build process and robustness.
userspacefuselinuxfuse-filesystemfilesystem
python/cpython
Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
The Python programming language
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 reviews, 7 commits, 26 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Matthias primarily contributed to the Python programming language's core codebase, focusing on bug fixes, optimizations, and code cleanup. Their work involved removing obsolete comments, refactoring code, fixing undefined behavior in C code within the Python interpreter, and improving the `math.nextafter` function. They also addressed issues in modules like `audioop` and `_testcapimodule.c`, demonstrating a deep understanding of the CPython internals.
python-programmingprogramming-languagepythonpython-programming-language
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