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name: Matthew Kim
role: Senior Software Developer
company: Pydantic
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  - 'https://www.linkedin.com/in/mat-thew/'
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# Matthew Kim

Senior Software Developer at Pydantic.

Staff Engineer at Pydantic.

## Links

- [github](https://github.com/friendlymatthew)
- [linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mat-thew/)

## Articles by Matthew Kim

- [Teaching DataFusion to read struct fields efficiently](https://pydantic.dev/articles/struct-field-pushdown) — 2026-05-14 ([markdown](https://pydantic.dev/articles/struct-field-pushdown.md))
- [How curvy is your data: an investigation into Hilbert curve sorting](https://pydantic.dev/articles/how-curvy-is-your-data) — 2026-04-07 ([markdown](https://pydantic.dev/articles/how-curvy-is-your-data.md))