Matthew Gandley

Matthew Gandley is an Engineering Manager at Google, where they lead a team focused on building world-scale distributed storage infrastructure that underpins services such as BigQuery and Dataflow. With a background in economics from UC Berkeley, Matthew transitioned from finance to data analytics and software engineering, gaining experience at Epic as a tech lead and manager in developing enterprise applications. Matthew joined Google during the pandemic, subsequently enhancing their team management skills while maintaining a people-first approach. Their engineering work has contributed significantly to notable projects, including AlphaFold's acclaimed research on protein folding.