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title: "Welcoming Matt Gilbert, our new Data Analyst"
description: "Resend announces Matt Gilbert as a Data Analyst on its Trust & Safety team. He spent 10 years as a Deliverability Engineer at Mailchimp, handling Delivery-team data and maintaining sending infrastructure that pushed around a billion emails a day, after earlier work on the Mandrill transactional mail service. Gilbert describes email delivery as a multidisciplinary field spanning MTA operations, data engineering, analytics, mail-queue performance, and troubleshooting delivery and inbox-placement problems, which led him to specialize in data engineering and analytics. He says he joined Resend because email remains an open, globally available way for services to communicate, and plans to help build data-driven capabilities and intelligence that enable customers to send better and reach inboxes quickly."
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# Welcoming Matt Gilbert, our new Data Analyst

[Resend](https://yomu.fyi/company/resend) · Jul 9, 2026

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

Resend announces Matt Gilbert as a Data Analyst on its Trust & Safety team. He spent 10 years as a Deliverability Engineer at Mailchimp, handling Delivery-team data and maintaining sending infrastructure that pushed around a billion emails a day, after earlier work on the Mandrill transactional mail service. Gilbert describes email delivery as a multidisciplinary field spanning MTA operations, data engineering, analytics, mail-queue performance, and troubleshooting delivery and inbox-placement problems, which led him to specialize in data engineering and analytics. He says he joined Resend because email remains an open, globally available way for services to communicate, and plans to help build data-driven capabilities and intelligence that enable customers to send better and reach inboxes quickly.

## Context

Matt Gilbert joins Resend’s Trust & Safety team after a decade as a Deliverability Engineer at Mailchimp. His background includes managing Delivery-team data, maintaining infrastructure that sent around a billion emails daily, and working on the Mandrill transactional mail service.

## Approach / What changed

Resend is adding Gilbert’s experience in email delivery, deliverability, data engineering, and analytics to build data-driven capabilities and intelligence for customers sending email through its developer-focused service.

## Takeaways

- Gilbert maintained Mailchimp sending infrastructure that pushed around a billion emails a day while handling data for the Delivery team.
- He describes email delivery work as spanning MTA operations, data engineering, analytics, mail-queue performance, and troubleshooting delivery and inbox-placement issues.
- At Resend, Gilbert plans to help develop data-driven capabilities that help customers send better and reach recipients’ inboxes quickly.

## FAQ

### What will Matt Gilbert work on at Resend?

He joins the Trust & Safety team as a Data Analyst. He plans to help build data-driven capabilities and intelligence that enable customers to send better and reach inboxes quickly.

### Why does Gilbert view email delivery as a multidisciplinary specialty?

He says the work combines infrastructure operations for MTAs, data engineering and analytics for mail queues, and troubleshooting delivery or inbox-placement problems. The variety led him toward data engineering and analytics within email operations at scale.

**Tags:** [Analytics](https://yomu.fyi/topic/analytics), [Data Engineering](https://yomu.fyi/topic/data-engineering), [Deliverability](https://yomu.fyi/topic/deliverability)

- Source: [Resend](https://resend.com/blog/welcoming-matt-gilbert)
- Source URL: https://resend.com/blog/welcoming-matt-gilbert
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