matthew goldfield

jamaica plain, massachusetts

About

I am at home in the mathematical, technical, and human arenas, and enjoy seeking elegant solutions to complex problems. I bring a well-rounded, open-minded, and collaborative approach to my work as an engineer, teacher, facilitator, and musician.

Country

united states

City

jamaica plain

Industry

computer software

Skill

c, c++, sql, algorithm optimization, functional programming, java, lucene, solr, javascript, python, ruby

Experience

jamaica plain, massachusetts

software engineer

dexafit tampa

2019-1 - 2020-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

teaching fellow

brandeis university

2005-1 - 2009-1 · 4 yrs 1 mo

* Courses: * Theory Of Computation * Principles of Programming Languages * Discrete Math

research scientist

brandeis university

2006-6 - 2006-8 · 3 mos

Grant funded research scientist under Prof. Harry Mairson. Topics included optimal evaluation for functional languages and polarized proofnets (for classical logic).

teaching assistant

carnegie mellon university

2003-1 - 2005-1 · 2 yrs 1 mo

* Courses: * Calculus I * Physics II

software engineer

simon data

2017-7 - 2018-10 · 1 yr 4 mos

Generalist, co-developed a real time event processing service, and spent time working on a data analytics tool with some predictive capabilities.

senior software engineer

akamai technologies

2011-1 - 2015-1 · 4 yrs 1 mo

* Member of the “Scoring and Topology” group, which developed technologies to discover the topology of the internet. * Owned and had a significant role in the research and design of multiple components, including work in the ping and trace systems, BGP route processing, work on our internal representation of IP space, load estimation, and more. * Promoted to "Senior" in 2013.

software engineer

wayfair

2009-1 - 2011-1 · 2 yrs 1 mo

* Helped to initiate and design high volume clickstream analysis using Netezza distributed database platform. * Re-architected and implemented the keyword search system using open source technologies Solr and Lucene. * Updated faceting and facet-like browsing systems for browse and keyword pages * Developed back end admin tools, UI, and large data query optimization