Summary
Matt Kowalczyk is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, highly available backend systems, currently driving data platform work at ZoomInfo after a stint simplifying big-data services at Microsoft/Xandr. He brings deep expertise in JVM and functional languages (Java, Scala, Erlang/Elixir), distributed systems, and debugging complex production issues across Linux/FreeBSD environments. Matt has a strong track record designing and maintaining Hadoop/Spark ETL pipelines, message-driven services, and developer-facing libraries that span ingestion to monitoring. His background includes systems-level work at Google and HP, giving him rare comfort across kernel-adjacent tooling and large-scale data infrastructure. Known for pragmatic architecture and a knack for rooting out elusive failures, he pairs statistical training with hands-on engineering to deliver reliable, performant solutions.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Oregon State University
Portland State University