Matias Niemelä
Founding Engineer at Focal
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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RockstarMatias Niemelä is a founding engineer with 15 years of experience building production web applications and startups, currently based in Amsterdam. An ex-Google and ex-Reddit engineer, he combines deep front-end expertise in Angular/AngularJS with full-stack experience demonstrated across high-profile open-source projects like angular/angular and angular/material. He specializes in UI/UX, animations, styling, and robust form handling—often fixing tricky edge cases around animation state and form validation that most teams defer. At Focal he’s applying that hands-on product-first mentality to build new systems from zero, blending pragmatic engineering with product instincts. Colleagues describe him as the kind of engineer who will both ship a polished component and refactor its internals for long-term maintainability.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (20)
angularjs-material10
javascript10
angulardart10
validations10
animation10
testing10
css10
validation10
forms10
web-animations-api10
front-end-development10
angularjs10
html10
web-development10
dart10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
angular/angular
Feb 2015 - Jun 2020
Deliver web apps with confidence 🚀
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:651 commits, 1547 PRs, 1669 pushes in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Matias's commits primarily involve front-end development within the Angular framework. They have focused on implementing new features, fixing bugs, and optimizing the UI/UX of the Angular application by enhancing styling features. In addition, the user has been involved in component and directive development, involving class and style bindings, ensuring the proper application of those through the use of animation controls. The commits suggest the user is quite adept at the Angular component and styling related frameworks.
reactjavascriptpwanodejsweb-developer
angular/angularjs.org
Jan 2014 - Apr 2015
code for angularjs.org site
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Matias primarily contributed to the user interface of the AngularJS documentation website. They added and modified the display of ng-conf videos, including thumbnails, categories, and search functionality. They also updated the site design by incorporating a banner for ng-europe and refactoring the button styles for mobile responsiveness. The user also removed the ng-europe banner.
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