Matthew Shwery
Software Engineer at Cursor
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Shwery is a San Francisco–based software engineer and founder with 14 years of experience building customer-facing web products, design systems, and GTM tooling. As co-founder and founding CTO/CPO of Koala he led the initial technical build and then moved into product strategy to create an end-to-end pipeline engine that surfaces first-party intent for sales and growth teams. Before Koala he held senior engineering and leadership roles at Segment—where he also contributed to the popular Evergreen React UI framework (notably improving TagInput, FilePicker, and other components)—and led UI engineering and design-system work at Lucid. Now at Cursor, he blends hands-on front-end engineering with product and growth sensibilities to ship usable, research-driven interfaces. Trained in journalism, he pairs technical depth with clarity in product direction and customer communication.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Journalism & Mass Communication, B.A. Journalism & Mass Communication at Iowa State University
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
ui-components10
typescript10
ui-design10
component-library10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
html6
iframe6
google-chrome6
geolocation6
angularjs6
progressive-web-apps6
css6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
segmentio/evergreen
Jul 2018 - Jul 2021
🌲 Evergreen React UI Framework by Segment
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:44 releases, 193 reviews, 175 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the Evergreen React UI Framework. Their work focused on implementing and refining the `TagInput` component, including adding functionality, fixing bugs, and improving its behavior. Further contributions included addressing warnings, fixing type declarations, and improving documentation. They also made changes to other components within the framework, such as `FilePicker` and `SelectMenuContent`.
react-ui-frameworkreactevergreenui-frameworkdesign-system
getkoala/action-destinations
Mar 2022 - Jan 2025
Action Destinations are the new way to build streaming destinations on Segment.
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 22 pushes in 2 years 10 months
destinationsstreamingsegment
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