Matt Welsh

I've posted a story to Medium on what it's been like to work at a startup, after years at Google. Check it out here.

My team at Google is wrapping up an effort to rewrite a large production system (almost) entirely in Go . I say "almost" because one compon...

Not long after joining Google back in 2010, I wrote this cheeky piece contrasting my daily schedule at Google with my previous career as a...

I came to Harvard 7 years ago with a fairly romantic notion of what it meant to be a professor -- I imagined unstructured days spent mentori...

It is a little-known fact that I nearly killed Facebook before it started. At least, that's what I like to think. Though, perhaps it was in...

I'm often asked what my job is like at Google since I left academia. I guess going from tenured professor to software engineer sounds like ...

Although I made the move to industry a bit more than five years ago, I still serve on program committees and review articles for journals a...

I really screwed things up as a young faculty member at Harvard. It worked out OK in the end, but, man, I wish I could go back in time to w...

The word is out that I have decided to resign my tenured faculty job at Harvard to remain at Google. Obviously this will be a big change in ...

My various blog posts about moving from academia to industry have prompted a number of conversations with PhD students who are considerin...

I was thinking recently about how different my workdays are now that I'm at Google, compared to the faculty job at Harvard. The biggest diff...

A number of people at Google have stickers on their laptops that read "my other computer is a data center." Having been at Google for almost...

Sebastian Thrun recently announced that he was leaving Stanford to found a free, online university called Udacity . This is based on his ...

Every year I am approached by students asking about grad school in Computer Science. I generally sit down with them for an hour or so and g...