Matt Barr
Mechanical Engineer at Intel Corporation
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Barr is a seasoned mechanical engineer with a decade of experience leading multidisciplinary teams and delivering factory infrastructure and tool-install solutions across semiconductor and defense sectors. At Intel he oversees mechanical team processes and drove a vendor transition that saved millions while improving product quality and data capability. Previously a Principal Mechanical Engineer at Northrop Grumman, he led structural, thermal, and manufacturing efforts for electronic packaging and liquid-cooling systems and mentored junior engineers. He combines hands-on design ownership—code compliance, fluid manifolding, materials selection, leak-detection—with process optimization that scales across multiple fabs. Unusually for a mechanical engineer, he has contributed performance-oriented low-level code optimizations to the high-profile intel/hyperscan project, reflecting a knack for cross-domain problem solving. Based in Beaverton, OR, he holds MS and BS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from The Ohio State University.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Mechanical Engineering at The Ohio State University
English
Github Skills (7)
regular-expression10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
bit-manipulation10
performance-optimization10
cmake8
documentation7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
intel/hyperscan
Oct 2015 - Jan 2018
High-performance regular expression matching library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Performance Engineer
Back-end Developer & Performance EngineerContributions:14 releases, 223 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on optimizing the `intel/hyperscan` library's regular expression matching performance through code modifications. Their commits involved removing redundant code at the preprocessing stage and replacing older implementations with more efficient instructions for bit manipulation, specifically using BMI2 and AVX2 instructions. These changes appear to be aimed at improving the efficiency and speed of the library. They also contributed to documentation for a specific CMake variable.
regular-expressionregex
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