Matt Gleeson

Current

• Engineer at CubeTree

Past

• Sr. Principal Software Engineer at Symantec
• Principal Software Engineer at Brightmail
• Software Engineer at MPI Software Technology

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Education

• Mississippi State University
• Mississippi State University

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Industry

Computer Software

Matt Gleeson’s Summary

Unix developer with experience creating scalable production systems.

Matt Gleeson’s Specialties:

email, web, unix, ssl, network protocols

Matt Gleeson’s Experience

• Engineer

  CubeTree

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  February 2008 — Present (9 months)

• Sr. Principal Software Engineer

  Symantec

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SYMC; Computer Software industry)

  June 2004 — February 2008 (3 years 9 months)

  Brightmail was acquired by Symantec in 2004.
  
  Research through maintenance phases for Symantec Brightmail's sender reputation systems. Leaning heavily on data-driven design. Requires maintenance and new development work on large cross-platform multi-threaded C/C++ code base as well as large multi-datacenter Perl/C backend systems.

• Principal Software Engineer

  Brightmail

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  February 2001 — June 2004 (3 years 5 months)

  Researched, designed, developed, supported, and maintained all in-house backend systems for the Brightmail anti-spam service.
  
  These systems include inbound mail processing of millions of spam messages per day, internal web UI for command and control of AS systems, and scalable authenticated multi-tier HTTPS-based publishing system for anti-spam definitions serving thousands of Brightmail scanning systems at customer sites.
  
  Relied heavily on Linux, Apache, Perl, C, Oracle, MySQL, caching of all kinds, web and email protocols.

• Software Engineer

  MPI Software Technology

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 1997 — February 2001 (3 years 9 months)

  Designed, developed and supported high-performance message-passing middleware for PC clusters and exotic hardware for customers including DOE and NASA. Ported a medium-sized multi-threaded code base from Windows/x86 to Linux and other Unix systems on multiple architectures.

Matt Gleeson’s Education

• Mississippi State University

  MS, Computer Science, 1997 — 2000

  Emphasis in High-Performance Computing

• Mississippi State University

  BS, Computer Engineering, 1992 — 1997