Matt Newkirk
Director at Etsy
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Newkirk is a seasoned software engineering director with 10+ years of leadership experience building and scaling teams across localization, international product experiences, and trust & safety. As Engineering Director at Etsy since 2020, he leads multiple organizations including Content Moderation/Evaluation, Translation, SEO, and international localization platforms, shaping human-first, globally accessible software. He previously steered Localization & Translation and Global Product Compliance as Senior SWE Manager and led Search & Personalization, emphasizing ML-driven international search and localization strategy. A proven people leader, he is a former chair of the Parents Employee Resource Group, mentors engineers, and is frequently hiring, open to chats about opportunities at his company. Earlier in his career, he built infrastructure and QA at IXL Learning and Electronic Arts, driving automation, tooling, and scalable systems; he also led a large online game engineering team at The Two Towers LPMud. Based in San Francisco, he champions remote-work integration with regional offices and a human-centric development ethos.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of New YorkB.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at University of Michigan-Flint
English, japanese (sukoshi dake)
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
stock8
finance6
slack2
google-chrome-extension1
google-chrome1
chrome1
javascript1
google-meet1
chrome-extension1
recording1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mnewkirk/kudos
Nov 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
mnewkirk/SmartThingsPublic
Aug 2020 - Aug 2020
SmartThings open-source DeviceTypeHandlers and SmartApps code
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push in 1 day
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