Mathias Paumgarten
Director Of Engineering at Proper AI
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolMathias Paumgarten is a seasoned Director of Engineering with 15 years of experience leading product-conscious engineering teams at fast-growing companies, currently scaling development at Series B startup Proper AI from Oakland. He blends a creative developer background and hands-on front-end expertise—from early Flash and ActionScript work to modern JavaScript—with leadership roles that span client-facing product strategy and engineering management. A longtime open-source contributor, he added utilities and quality fixes to the well-known mout modular JavaScript library, demonstrating attention to developer ergonomics and tooling. Comfortable toggling between product strategy and code, Mathias has a track record of shipping polished user experiences at Google and boutique studios alike. He holds a BS in Digital Media and studied computer science in Innsbruck, a blend that surfaces in pragmatic design-driven engineering decisions. Colleagues know him for pushing pixels and pushing teams toward measurable impact.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BG/BRG KufsteinBachelor of Science (BS) Digital Media (Multi Media Technology), Bachelor of Science (BS) Digital Media (Multi Media Technology) at University of Applied Sciences SalzburgComputer Science, Computer Science at Universität Innsbruck
English, German
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
strings10
text-manipulation10
modular-design10
functional-programming10
testing9
decorator9
typescript9
css9
react9
html9
generics9
mobile-safari6
html5-video6
flash6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mout/mout
Feb 2013 - Sep 2022
Modular JavaScript Utilities
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 116 commits, 33 PRs in 9 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Mathias primarily focused on improving the `mout/mout` repository's modular JavaScript utilities by implementing new features and fixing existing code. Their contributions included adding the `function/timeout` and `string/insert` utilities, along with several other new function and string methods. They also addressed code formatting issues and corrected spelling errors in tests.
javascriptmodularutilitiestypescriptoop
MathiasPaumgarten/grunt-shared-config
May 2013 - Mar 2016
Contributions:61 commits, 4 PRs, 15 pushes in 2 years 10 months
stylussasscsspostcssconfig
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