Matías Surdi
Javascript Engineer at Automattic
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolMatías Surdi is a JavaScript engineer based in Madrid with a decade-plus career spanning frontend, backend, infrastructure and ops roles across startups and large companies. He currently builds web and desktop clients for Pocket Casts at Automattic and has contributed front-end features to the high-profile wp-calypso WordPress.com codebase. Comfortable shipping user-facing UI, CI/tooling improvements and cloud-based platforms, he has led teams modernizing architectures with technologies from React/TypeScript to Go, Python and AWS. A polyglot engineer who lived and worked across Europe and Latin America, he pairs hands-on implementation skills with a habit of improving developer workflows and testing. Off-hours he’s an avid science and astronomy podcast listener, sci‑fi reader and perpetual side‑project creator—traits that fuel his curiosity and readiness to dive into unfamiliar problems.
3 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Electronics Technician, Electronics, Technician, Electronics Technician, Electronics, Technician at E.E.T Nº 5, Prof. A.J. RodríguezBachelor of Science in Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at U.N.E.D.Electromechanics Technician, Electromechanics, Electromechanics Technician, Electromechanics at E.E.T. Nº 5 J.F. KennedyCCNA, Networking, Cisco CCNA certification, CCNA, Networking, Cisco CCNA certification at Universidad Tecnológica NacionalElectronics Engineering, Electronics, Electronics Engineering, Electronics at Universidad de Buenos Aires
English, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
wordpress10
s610
javascript10
redux10
react10
nodejs8
unit-testing8
webpacker7
webpack7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/wp-calypso
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 25 commits, 15 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Matías primarily contributed to the implementation of a "Pricing Upgrade" block within the WordPress.com Calypso platform. Their work involved adding placeholder UI components, integrating React and related dependencies, writing unit tests, and configuring build processes. They also refactored the block to align with the new happy-blocks plugin and addressed dependency management issues. The user's contributions demonstrate a focus on creating user-facing features within the WordPress ecosystem.
apireactwordpressjavascriptes6
msurdi-a8c/sentry-javascript
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Official Sentry SDKs for JavaScript
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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