[debbiedowner]

On the author's resume is a link to a L10 salary at google under "available for employment" and a distinguished engineer at Amazon. So author is in the top 0.01% (or even higher really) of salary expectations for the SWE ladder as I understand.

[SamvitJ]

I'm not sure where you're seeing that in his resume: https://matt.sh/files/a-resume/resume.html

[debbiedowner]

Click on "available" and "employment" in "Waiting for AI Apocalypse / Available for Employment"