Why you should listen
Matt Cutts works for the U.S. Digital Service (USDS), a non-partisan technology group in the Executive Office of the President that improves government services relied upon by millions of Americans. He first joined the U.S. Digital Service in 2016 at Department of Defense. He joined Google in 2000 and became head of its webspam team where he protected the quality of Google's search results and answered questions about search engine optimization and ranking algorithms. He wrote the first version of SafeSearch, Google's family filter.
Cutts is widely known for his 30-day challenges to try something new and is an avid (but slow) long-distance runner. He holds a master's degree from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and bachelor's degrees in mathematics and computer science from the University of Kentucky.
