Matthew Cunningham

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Engineering Manager at Spotify · Embedded systems · ARM Cortex-M, hardware bring-up

Spotify
San Francisco, CA · PT (UTC-8)
9+ years experience
Stanford University
English
Open to work
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Overview

9 years in software engineering, the last 3 at Spotify, where I lead the firmware team. Built the experimentation framework 7 product teams use to ship changes safely. Before that: Zoom and Datadog. Most at home with hardware bring-up and Bluetooth LE. I host a monthly meetup on embedded systems.

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Skills
Bluetooth LEembedded Linuxhardware bring-upCRTOSARM Cortex-M
Open to workLooking for a role
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Open to Embedded Engineer roles at seed gaming companies

Target roles
Embedded Engineer
Level
Senior
Industries
Developer tools, Fintech
Work mode
On-site
Available
30 days notice
Work authorization
Authorized to work in the CA
What I'm looking for
A team that ships weekly and owns firmware end to end.
Not interested in
Agencies and outsourcing firms

9 years in embedded systems. Strongest at C and Bluetooth LE. Available immediately.

San Francisco, CAbluetooth learm cortex-mhardware bring-up
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Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    May 2023 - Present
    Spotify · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 35 minutes to under 5.
    • Led the migration of 21 services to RTOS.
  2. Senior Embedded Engineer
    Nov 2020 - May 2023
    Zoom · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Shipped 9 launches on the firmware team without a rollback.
    • Led the migration of 37 services to hardware bring-up.
  3. Embedded Engineer
    Oct 2017 - Nov 2020
    Datadog · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 28 minutes to under 6.
    • Reduced cloud spend on firmware by 28% in two quarters.

Projects

Open-source hardware bring-up toolkit
2025

A small library for embedded systems that 813 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. Stanford University
    BS, Computer Engineering
    2013 - 2017

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