Matthew Snelham

Matthew Snelham is the current VP of Engineering, Infrastructure at Reddit. Matthew was previously Sabbatical's President from January 2020 to July 2020, where they scaled and led the SRE teams supporting Search crawling, global Indexing, and internal Logging and analytics infrastructure across all products. Matthew has also managed global teams across Mountain View, Dublin, Zurich, and Sydney. Snelham is directly responsible for search infrastructure and product, with multiple 24/7 coverage rotations, and portfolio of product engagements (onboarding, retirement, and product maturity).

Before Sabbatical, Snelham spent 12 years at Google as the Sr. Engineering Director, Machine Learning Fleet. Matthew founded and built the organization responsible for low level Machine Learning infrastructure and capacity across Alphabet, including internal, Cloud, and 'bets' like Deepmind. Snelham was responsible for planning, provisioning, and software engineering required for efficient software operations of 100% of Google's multi-generational TPUs and other accelerators. Matthew also managed ecosystem needs across products, and helped drive the companies long term roadmap.

Prior to joining Google in 2007, Snelham worked at Intel as a Senior Consultant from June 2005 to March 2007.

Matthew Snelham is currently a student at the University of California, Davis, where they are double majoring in computer science and electrical engineering. Matthew is interested in both fields and plans to continue their education after graduation.

They are on a team with Shariq Rizvi - EVP, Monetization, Lisa O'Keefe - Chief of Staff to the CTO, and Suchit Dash - VP, Consumer & Contributor. Matthew Snelham reports to Chris Slowe, CTO.