Matan Kushner
Member Of Technical Staff at Vercel
Tokyo, Japan
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Matan Kushner is a software engineer and tech lead with 11 years of experience building performant web applications and delightful user experiences, currently leading engineering at Vercel from Tokyo. He blends hands-on full-stack development, performance engineering, and product design—previously driving large-scale efforts at AniList (serving 3M+ users), CodeSandbox, Auth0, and Shutterstock. A pragmatic leader, he has a strong track record improving CI/CD, testing strategy, and performance budgets to accelerate releases and reliability. An active open-source contributor, he’s helped harden CI/CD for the widely used starship prompt and contributes to AI tooling at Vercel and the Starship project. He also runs a freelance practice, pairing design sensibility with engineering discipline, and brings a background in electronics engineering to inform systems thinking.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Electronics Engineering Technology, Electronics Engineering Technology at Dawson College
English, French, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
github-ci10
cicd10
yaml10
githubaction-workflow10
testing9
shell8
bash7
zsh7
mongodb6
jekyll6
documentation6
browsersync6
excel6
gulp6
jquery6
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
starship/starship
Dec 2019 - Jan 2023
☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:44 releases, 402 reviews, 675 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Matan primarily focused on updating and maintaining the Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines of the repository. Their contributions included updating CI dependencies, replacing build actions, and modifying workflow configurations to improve the build and testing processes. The user also addressed caching strategies and resolved installation issues within the CI environment, ultimately streamlining the project's automated build and testing workflows. The user also made updates to the documentation.
shellzsh-themefish-themezsh-promptfish-prompt
jadijadi/starship
Jun 2022 - Jun 2022
☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!
Contributions:92 commits in 7 days
shell
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