Matthew is an independent software engineer, consultant, and advisor. His focus areas are distributed systems, AI/ML infrastructure, and improving engineering culture. He has previously worked at Twitter, Netflix, Comcast, and a handful of other companies.
An engineer’s guide to making sense of log data
Cloud native technologies have made it harder to understand how systems are behaving. Logs are the answer, but how do you make sense of them?
Putting your power into practice as a Staff+ engineer
Matthew Hawthorne discusses how his talk at LeadDev West Coast in October will help Staff+ engineers use their unique standing more effectively.
Putting power into practice as a Staff+ engineer
Matthew Hawthorne discusses how, as a Staff+ engineer, you may not have as much power as you’d like within your organization. But you probably have more power than you realize.
Influencing without management authority as a senior individual contributor
Effectively communicating technical expertise.
Outages are coming for you
How to respond when your systems have a significant outage
What is senior IC? Flavours of technical leadership
Although the Senior IC ladder is starting to become more defined why aren’t more people talking about this shift, and what does leadership actually look like as Senior IC?
Taking risks in production
Being an engineer, we all have at least one common thread: We like to build things. That is why writing code and architecting platforms that scale for millions of customers is appealing.
