Matilda Smeds
Senior Software Engineer at Prima
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolMatilda Smeds is a Senior Software Engineer based in Madrid with over a decade of experience building and scaling backend systems across gaming, logging, and enterprise domains. She’s shipped game configuration, matchmaking, and high-throughput log ingestion pipelines, often using Rust and contributing to tokio and tracing to improve developer experience and performance. Comfortable leading technical investigations and mentoring direct reports, she blends hands-on implementation with architectural decision-making and clear, accessible documentation. Her background spans startups and large teams (Scopely, New Relic, Matchday) and reaches back to academic project facilitation, giving her a rare mix of research-led process thinking and production-grade engineering. Notably, she pairs low-level concurrency and networking expertise with pragmatic product focus, enabling features from spec to production at scale.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. (Tech.) Information Networks, M.Sc. (Tech.) Information Networks at Teknillinen korkeakoulu-Tekniska högskolan
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Github Skills (89)
mvc10
ruby10
activerecord10
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ruby-on-rails10
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javascript10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
matildasmeds/matildasmeds.github.io
Aug 2017 - Aug 2025
Personal homepage
Contributions:24 PRs, 47 pushes, 12 branches in 8 years 1 month
in-progressjavascriptwork-in-progress
matildasmeds/tokio
Mar 2023 - May 2025
A runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. Provides I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, ...
Contributions:35 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 2 months
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