Matthew Newman

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Data Engineer, PayPal - Snowflake · Airflow · Spark

PayPal
Atlanta, GA · ET (UTC-5)
2+ years experience
UC San Diego
English
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Overview

2 years in software engineering, the last 1 at PayPal, where I work on the data platform team. Grew the data platform team from 3 to 23 engineers. Moved 62% of data platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Skills
PythonKafkaSparkSnowflakedbtAirflow

Experience

  1. Data Engineer
    Dec 2025 - Present
    PayPal · 10 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Cut forecast error from 23% to 9% across 866 SKUs.
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
    • Taught SQL to 99 non-analysts.
  2. Data Engineer
    Oct 2024 - Dec 2025
    Atlassian · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Cut forecast error from 34% to 6% across 2627 SKUs.
    • Replaced 80 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.

Projects

Open-source Kafka toolkit
2024

A small library for demand forecasting that 590 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. UC San Diego
    BS, Electronics and Communication
    2020 - 2024

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