About Me
Hello! My name is Michael Schmatz. I'm an engineer and currently work at the UK AI Safety Institute in London on the Autonomous Systems team. I am an engineering generalist with experience in infrastructure, games, web, and AI.
Work History
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Engineer at the UK AI Safety Institute
July 2024 - Present
I work on the Autonomous Systems team on evaluations.
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Principal Engineer at CodeCombat
May 2022 - July 2024
I worked as CodeCombat's principal engineer on a variety of educational products in partnership with Roblox. These included CodeCombat Worlds, and I developed a lot of the infrastructure: the core engine, the level editor, code editor, creative mode infrastructure, etc.
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Staff Software Engineer, Meta Platforms
May 2016 - May 2022
I most recently worked as a staff software engineer in Meta Infrastructure on the Web Foundation team, which is responsible for keeping the Facebook family of products running smoothly. My favorite accomplishment was root causing a total out of Meta's family of products.
Before that, I worked on the Information Tools team where I led the team responsible for Facebook's internal tools infrastructure that all Meta employees depended on to do their jobs.
Finally, before that, I built tools for Facebook's advertiser support, primarily call center interfaces. In that role, I wrote the first Messenger client in GraphQL/React/Relay back in 2016.