# Mathew Hogan > Building Cursor Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/mathewhogan ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Cursor Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Tech Lead / Manager @ Contextual AI Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Mountain View, California, United States ### Member of Technical Staff @ Contextual AI Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Mountain View, California, United States ### Senior Software Engineer @ Confluent Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Mountain View, California, United States • Kafka Storage team at Confluent ### Software Engineer @ Confluent Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Mountain View, California, United States ### Course Assistant - Department of Computer Science @ Stanford University School of Engineering Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Stanford, California, United States • Contributed to teaching of CS 251: Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technologies (Autumn 2021), CS 140: Operating Systems (Winter 2022), and CS 155: Computer and Network Security (Spring 2022) • Administered office hours, designed programming assignments, graded student work, and planned and taught discussion sections. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Confluent Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, California, United States • Worked as developer on Apache Kafka Storage team at Confluent. ### Software Development Engineering Intern @ Amazon Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Sunnyvale, California, United States • Worked as developer on Accessibility Team in Amazon’s Lab126 Devices org. • Lead design and implementation of new assistive technology to make Amazon devices accessible to users with disabilities • Exceeded project goals and requirements, and project is now being productized • Developed skills in systems design, Android development, accessibility, and user-focused design ### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | East Palo Alto, CA • Worked as developer on Amazon Redshift Control Plane team • Managed Idle Cluster Detector project from design stage, through implementation and deployment to production regions • Project identified and helped to eliminate over $6 million per month in wasteful spending on underutilized computing resources • Presented and defended project design to 20 team members, and presented results to broader Redshift team ### Head Race Coach / Sailing Instructor @ Wadawanuck Club, Inc. Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Stonington, CT ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science Stanford University ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science Stanford University ### High School Diploma Harvard-Westlake School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mathew-hogan --- Source: https://flows.cv/mathewhogan JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/mathewhogan/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11