Mat Appelman
Founder at Opstrace, Inc.
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMat Appelman is a founder and full-stack engineer with a decade of experience building high-performing teams and reliably shipping production software from California. As a co-founder of Opstrace, he blends hands-on UI and backend development with product and project leadership, contributing significant refactors, build tooling improvements, and runtime config services to an open-source observability distribution. Known for building deep trust across teams, he moves fluidly between shipping user-facing features and architecting controller/backend systems. His YC background underscores a startup-minded approach to rapid iteration and scalable design. Mat’s practical curiosity shows in tackling both developer tooling and UX concerns, helping projects progress from early preview flags to production-ready workflows. He focuses on measurable delivery and long-term team capability rather than short-term heroics.
11 years of coding experience
Y Combinator
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
kubernetes10
cortex10
cortex-a10
typescript10
wpgraphql10
wordpress-graphql10
typescript-types10
kubernetes-pods10
graphql10
typescripts10
react10
package-management9
file-management9
configuration-management9
backend9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
opstrace/opstrace
Nov 2020 - Jan 2022
The Open Source Observability Distribution
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:144 reviews, 297 commits, 104 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:The user, Mat Appelman, appears to be a full-stack developer, making contributions across the UI and the controller/backend of the Opstrace project. His work included refactoring UI components using the EARLY_PREVIEW flag, refactoring and managing files for the SDK, and improving the build tooling. He also implemented changes to enable the loading and presentation of code and was involved in creating and managing the backend of this service for cortex runtime config updates.
observabilitymonitoringmetricslogstracing
MatApple/dcos
Jun 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:5 pushes, 5 branches in 10 months
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