Mat Tyndall
Cofounder & Tech Beast at Beast, Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMat Tyndall is a serial founder and hands-on technical leader with 13 years of experience building products at the intersection of immersive XR, games, and novel systems. As Cofounder & Tech Beast at Beast, Inc. he is bringing magical pets to life in XR while also shipping a tabletop startup card game and exploring dynamic rating systems through a long-running research project, Retrace. His background spans backend and database engineering—evident from contributions to a Node.js Neo4j driver—biomedical nanotech research, and early crowdsourced platforms, reflecting a strong experimental bent. Based in San Francisco, he blends product-minded engineering with playful creativity and a habit of diving deep into quirky technical rabbit holes that often lead to surprising innovations.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Engineering Physics, Bachelor of Science Engineering Physics at University of California, BerkeleyLick-Wilmerding High SchoolUniversity of California, San Diego
Japanese, English
Github Skills (6)
neo4j10
nodejs10
javascript10
cypher10
database-design9
api-design8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
thingdom/node-neo4j
Jul 2012 - Dec 2012
[RETIRED] Neo4j graph database driver (REST API client) for Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:18 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Mat primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `node-neo4j` driver. Their work focused on enhancing the `Node` class by adding features like `indexUniquely` and improving the `unindex` method to support optional parameters. They also implemented and refactored indexing functions for both nodes and relationships. These changes indicate a focus on improving the driver's interaction with the Neo4j graph database.
neo4j-graphneo4j-graph-databasecypherneo4j-databasenodejs
tinj/neo4j-architect
Jan 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:16 commits in 7 months
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