Matthew Thomas
Partner at Thomas Oakley PLLC
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Thomas is a seasoned business leader and legal counsel who specializes in startup formation, governance, and growth strategy. As a Partner at Thomas Oakley PLLC since 2018, he draws on experience as a founder and corporate negotiator to guide founders through VC rounds, financings, and deal execution. Earlier in his career he built and led corporate, financing, and operations work as Corporate Counsel and Business Lead at FØCAL, while also shaping product and privacy policies for a data-driven platform. His entrepreneurial track includes founding M.P. Thomas Designs and BrakeHand, complemented by early legal experience at Ropes & Gray and advocacy in environmental causes, all of which inform a pragmatic, integrity-driven approach to civil society and public-interest work. He holds a magna cum laude J.D. from Washington University and a summa cum laude B.S. in Philosophy from Ball State, with Human Rights studies at the University of Pretoria, reflecting a rigorous, interdisciplinary foundation. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he combines rigorous legal acumen with entrepreneurial insight to turn ambitious ideas into sustainable ventures.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
magna cum laude, magna cum laude at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
English, Spanish
Github Skills (135)
hyper-v10
windows10
npm-package10
ubuntu10
look-and-feel10
operating-system10
web-applications10
qemu10
snap10
linux10
software-update10
multipass10
html10
libvirt10
container10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
canonical/desktop-design
Apr 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:52 commits, 50 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 3 months
matthewpaulthomas/build.snapcraft.io
Feb 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:9 pushes, 12 branches in 4 months
snapcraft
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