Matthew Newton

Comfy Org (formerly Drip.Art) San Francisco, CA
January 2023 — 2024

Co-founded and served as CTO, leading technical development and managing engineering team from prototype to production-scale AI generation platform while managing investor relations and strategic direction, evolving from custom portrait generation to video stylization, then executing strategic pivot to ComfyUI workflow productionization infrastructure.

Meta Palo Alto, CA
May 2022 — December 2022

Developed and optimized AutoML systems on the Ads Core ML team, maintaining hundreds of advertising models through automated retraining and performance improvements.

Google Mountain View, CA
December 2016 — April 2022

Gboard — Federated Analytics and Machine Learning July 2019 — April 2022

I worked on a modeling team for Gboard and partnered with international teams on private federated learning. We identified ‘private heavy hitters’, or the most frequent items of a dataset, without centralized logging of what a user does on their keyboard. With those heavy hitters, we train models to power new experiences or improve existing models to adapt to changing user needs.

Google Search — Search Frontend December 2016 — July 2019

Google.com Search consists of multiple teams with different search verticals. My work on a horizontal infrastructure team was to optimize a slice of the stack for improved developer velocity and to optimize the billions of search result pages served to end users every day.

Apple logoApple Cupertino, CA
May 2013 — December 2016

Fullstack engineering for the Apple Instructional Design department, including team leadership responsibilities. This ranged from internal tooling for authors and localizers, to creating new user-facing instructional experiences ahead of product launches.

Education

Rochester Institute of TechnologySeptember 2009 — May 2013

Bachelors of Science in Computer Science, from Rochester Institute of Technology. Minors in Mathematics and Economics.

Stanford Online, CourseraApril 2016

Certificate from Andrew Ng's Machine Learning course on Coursera.

Other Projects

Blaze/Bazel Build Notifying Widget 2017

When I joined Google Search, I found that I often missed when the build was done, especially if it had failed early. A cold build could take 30-45 minutes even on my specialty machine with 12 cores and 128gb of ram, which meant context switching whenever blaze's cache was too old. So I built this LED notification widget to let me know when the build had finished with attention-grabbing lights. I provided parts to my coworkers in my team and taught a quick class on assembling / programming the microcontroller as a blaze status indicator.

Kinect the Dots 2015

Spearheaded an electronic art installation called 'Kinect the Dots', a large-scale grid of approximately 1,900 LEDs which displays RGB silhouettes of nearby people in real time. This has been showcased at the Bay Area Maker Faire (received 2 editor's choice awards), )'(, and Santa Cruz Glow.