Matt Leon

Education

BS, Honors in Computer Science

Vanderbilt University

3.521 GPA | Aug 2017 - May 2020

Work Experience

Google Cloud

Software Engineer III (L4)

Cambridge, MA | Dec 2022 - Present
  • Data plane engineer for Google Cloud Service Extensions, a WebAssembly execution platform for low-latency execution of customer-provided WebAssembly modules (primarily in C++)
  • Implemented resource usage limits on customer code, efficient recovery mechanisms for customer code faults, customer-facing monitoring, and security isolation between traffic path and execution environment
  • Led design and implementation of endpoint programming control plane for a WebAssembly-execution-as-a-service modeling thousands of customer binaries with millions of QPS as services for real-time horizontal scaling

Google Travel

Software Engineer II (L3)

Cambridge, MA | Aug 2020 - Dec 2022
  • Customized hotel owner experience in Google Business Profile. Independently delivered end-to-end projects (including PRD, engineering design, implementation, and VP-level launch sign-off) involving data ingestion, processing, UI, and experiment analysis leading to double-digit % lifts in engagements.
  • UI: TypeScript, Backend: Java, and Data processing and analysis: SQL.

Google Chrome

Software Engineering Intern

Montréal, QC, Canada | May 2019 - Aug 2019
  • Worked on the Chrome Metrics team on tools for analysis of metrics, telemetry, and usage data for the Chrome Browser.
  • Utilized JavaScript, Python, C++, and SQL handle frontend, backend, and data pipeline development.

Fulcrum GT

Software Engineering Intern

Chicago, IL | May 2018 - Dec. 2018
  • Worked as DevOps engineer for 5 intern teams implementing continuous integration/continuous kubernetes deployment
  • Senior backend engineer (golang) for Jolt; designed and implemented backend supporting Google docs-style whiteboarding tools for real-time collaboration between students.

Projects

Vaken

TypeScript, React, Express, Webpack

github.com/VandyHacks/vaken
Open-source hackathon registration and management system designed for ease of adoption and used by thousands of students across several hackathons

Open Source Contributions

github.com/leonm1
Maintainer of NixOS/nixpkgs (home automation team), contributor to proxy-wasm, and linux-surface

Leadership Experience

President

VandyHacks

Vanderbilt University | 2019
  • Lead organizer behind VandyHacks VI, 650+ student hackathon in Fall 2019

Co-Founder

VandyFOSS

Vanderbilt University | 2018 - 2020
  • Started the Free and Open Source Society (FOSS) at Vanderbilt University, teaching students how to contribute to open source

Skills

Languages

(In order of proficiency)
  1. TypeScript
  2. C++
  3. HTML/CSS
  4. SQL
  5. Go
  6. JavaScript
  7. Python
  8. Rust

Technologies

  1. Linux
  2. Git
  3. Nix
  4. Docker
  5. WebAssembly
  6. Bazel
  7. React
  8. Lit Element

Selected Curricula

  1. Web-based Systems Architecture
  2. Operating Systems
  3. Network Security

  1. Cloud Computing
  2. Reverse Engineering
  3. Data Privacy in Biomedicine