Lorenzo Mattei
Director - Native Apps
Gubbio, Umbria, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolLorenzo Mattei is a seasoned software leader with 14 years of experience building and directing native app teams, currently serving as Director of Native Apps at DuckDuckGo from Italy. He combines hands-on mobile and desktop engineering with release automation expertise—evidenced by Fastlane work for Simplenote iOS and notarization and CI/CD improvements for Electron apps like Simplenote and WordPress Desktop. Previously he led mobile infrastructure and quality at Automattic, resolving complex integration and UI issues across flagship open-source projects (WordPress mobile, Simplenote) while shaping build and deployment pipelines. Lorenzo pairs managerial experience with active contribution to well-known open-source repos, often tackling merge conflicts, platform-specific packaging, and cross-process Electron tooling. He brings a practical focus on reliability and developer workflows, having progressed from embedded/semiconductor software roles to founding independent projects and managing product-focused engineering teams.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Università degli Studi di Perugia
Github Skills (38)
kotlin10
github-ci10
javascript10
ios10
electron10
wordpress10
build-system10
android-sdk10
fastlane10
ui-design10
cicd10
java10
javas10
release-management10
automation10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/wp-desktop
Aug 2018 - Apr 2020
WordPress.com for Desktop
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 144 commits, 89 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Lorenzo contributed to the WordPress.com for Desktop application, making changes to both the front-end and back-end components. They implemented features related to the user interface, such as the pin app reminder on Windows and Mac. The user also modified the preload script, which handles interactions between the main and renderer processes in Electron, and made adjustments to the build process.
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wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS
Dec 2017 - Nov 2021
WordPress for iOS - Official repository
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 releases, 50 reviews, 1761 commits in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Lorenzo's commits primarily involve fixing merge conflicts and adding new features to the iOS application's statistics and insights components. They modified the `StatsInsightsStore.swift` file, adding new cases for handling insights details, and modifying the `SiteStatsInsightsViewModel.swift` and `StatsPeriodStore.swift` files to integrate the new functionalities. The user also updated the `StatsInsightsStore.swift` file by adding new methods to handle various insights details, which indicates enhancements to the backend statistical features. These changes show a focus on improving the user's ability to access the insights of the mobile application.
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