Matthew Goldstein
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Matthew Goldstein 73 Hancock St, Somerville, MA 02144 518-391-9232 · [email protected] Work Experience E la Carte Palo Alto, CA Director of Engineering, Chief Architect November 2010 - October 2012 • Integrated ordering and payment tablet functionality into restaurants' existing infrastructure • Designed systems working closely with customers to meet operational requirements • Developed secure architecture for PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliant certification • Built US-based engineering team as company gained funding CCP Games - EVE Online Reykjavik, Iceland Core Cluster Intern June 2010 - August 2010 • Instrumented Massively Multiplayer RPG's 200-node full mesh cluster with 50K simultaneous users • Created a network flow inspection tool to visualize traffic with HTML5 across entire cluster • Analyzed long-term activity patterns of 300,000 users to better characterize cluster load in EVE Online • Project presented by CEO as the example of Excellence at CCP Kickoff 2010 NetApp Waltham, MA Advanced Technology Group Researcher with MIT VI-A Co-op Program June 2009 - December 2009 Filesystems Group Intern June 2008 - August 2008 • Developed experimental distributed storage deduplication system as part of Master's Thesis • Identified 95% of duplicates with minimal communication and without using a central content hash table AOL Dulles, VA Instant Messenger Host Team Intern June 2007 - August 2007 • Built a comprehensive integration testing framework still used for AIM and ICQ server development today MIT Information Services & Technology Cambridge, MA Residential Computing Supervisor February 2007 - June 2009 Athena Consultant and Residential Computing Consultant May 2006 - June 2009 Projects MSGS Chat Gateway May 2009 - Present • Built a gateway connecting MIT's Zephyr instant messaging system to AIM, passing over 100,000 messages DoorManBot Offline Messaging System October 2002 - October 2006 • Created a network which provided offline messaging for over 125,000 users of AIM • Operated for 4 years in changing, undocumented network conditions until AOL added the feature natively • Awarded Davidson Fellowship for Technology, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award, NSPE, and more Pidgin/Gaim, BarnOwl, naim, & TerraIM, Contributor to each project 2004 - Present Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA Master of Engineering in Computer Science with Industry · Cumulative GPA: 5.0/5.0 Feb 2011 Concentration: Distributed Systems Thesis: Harnessing Metadata Characteristics for Efficient Deduplication in Distributed Storage Systems S.B. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science · Cumulative GPA: 4.3/5.0 June 2009 Concentrations: Computer Systems, Comparative Media Studies Relevant Coursework • Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Algorithms (6.006), Spring and Fall 2010 • Systems: Heterogenous Networks (6.267), Computer System Architecture (6.823), Computer Networks (6.829), Distributed Systems (6.824, partial), Computer System Engineering (6.033), Software Engineering Lab (6.170), Distributed Algorithms (6.884) • User Experience: User Inferface Design & Implementation (6.831), Communicating with Mobile Technology (21W.789) Leadership Experience Alpha Phi Omega, National Co-ed Service Fraternity National Convention Committee October 2007 - December 2008 • One of 12 chairs nationally of the biennial convention attended by 2,000 members for 4 days • Responsible for logistics of 600+ delegate legislative floor and 10 concurrent legislative committee sessions • Architected paper message delivery system handling 1,000+ messages per hour President and Distinguished Service Key Holder, Alpha Chi Chapter at MIT May 2008 - May 2009 MIT Association of Student Activities, Executive Board, Publicity Coordinator April 2009 - April 2010 Skills • Programming Languages: Python, Perl, Java, Scheme, BASIC, C, Shell scripting. Some C++, PHP, SQL, Javascript • Markup: HTML, LATEX, CSS • Tools/Platforms: VIM, Eclipse, Subversion, Git, Perforce, GNU/Linux, Windows • Strengths: Distributed Systems, Undocumented Protocols/APIs, Instant Messaging, User Interactions • Other: Letterpressing, Ham Radio Licensee at W1MX, Contra Dancing, Silkscreening, Advanced Level Square Dancing.