# Matt Zimmerman

> Logistics Engineering at DoorDash

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/mattzimmerman

Experienced engineering leader, executive, and entrepreneur with background in cloud infrastructure, open source development, and distributed teams. Over 20 years in software and not bored yet.

## Work Experience
### Principal Engineer @ DoorDash
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Dasher & Logistics engineering

### Director Of Engineering @ DoorDash
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
Core Platform, SRE, and Performance Engineering

### Senior Engineering Manager @ DoorDash
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area

### VP Engineering @ Triplebyte
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Founder and CEO @ Base Zero Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
A high-security crypto wallet for institutional use, supporting multi-signature across multiple blockchains and assets.

Successfully raised a seed round and closed over $500k in new business. Developed product hands-on including infrastructure and full stack application development.

### CTO, Denizen Financial @ BBVA
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Global banking for expats

Created and launched a new consumer banking app  aimed at expats which allowed customers to seamlessly transact in multiple currencies using a single balance.

### VP Engineering @ Heroku
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
Platform as a service (PaaS), acquired by Salesforce

I led the engineering org as we scaled from 30 to 120 engineers and past $100MM in revenue, improving reliability from two nines to four nines while shipping relentlessly.

### CTO @ Ubuntu
Jan 2004 – Jan 2011
Open source Linux distribution

I led engineering for Ubuntu 4.10 through 11.04, across several product lines including desktop and cloud servers. Grew the highly distributed engineering org from 10 to 250+ in 26 countries, working in concert with a dedicated community of thousands of volunteers.


## Education
### Computer Science
Rochester Institute of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mdzin
- Portfolio: http://mdzlog.alcor.net/

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Last updated: 2026-04-12