Mats Linander
Programmer at Tidbyt
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolMats Linander is a seasoned programmer and entrepreneur with 16 years of experience building backend infrastructure and developer-facing products from startups to scale. He co-founded Tidbyt, contributing significant full-stack work to its community and pixlet projects—adding features, refactoring code, and improving CLI and widget UX for a growing pixel-display platform. Prior to founding Tidbyt he spent over a decade at Spotify in roles spanning software engineering, team leadership, infrastructure product management, and data science, helping introduce lightweight containerization and in-house orchestration across thousands of servers. Now based in New York and currently at Modal, he blends hands-on coding with product instincts, shipping pragmatic solutions that balance developer experience and operational scale. Known for quietly improving legacy codebases and documentation, he brings both systems-level thinking and a knack for incremental, user-focused improvements.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Github Skills (13)
golang10
apim10
starlark10
go10
api10
mobile-development10
app-dev10
cli10
gif9
webp9
matrix7
mat7
displays7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
tidbyt/pixlet
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Build apps for pixel-based displays ✨
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 23 reviews, 32 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Mats primarily contributed to the `pixlet` project by adding new features, refactoring existing code, and improving the user experience. Their work involved implementing a command-line interface (CLI) command for pushing images to the Tidbyt API. Furthermore, the user improved browser compatibility by changing the image format in the documentation. They also improved the Marquee widget functionality.
golangled-displaydisplaysstarlarkpixel
tidbyt/community
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
A publishing platform for apps developed by the Tidbyt community 🚀
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:509 reviews, 45 commits, 1521 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Mats primarily contributed to the development of applications for the Tidbyt platform. Their work included fixing bugs, adding new features, and integrating new apps. They demonstrated proficiency in modifying existing codebases, incorporating new functionalities, and ensuring the proper integration of various applications within the Tidbyt community. The user also refactored the project and updated dependencies.
golangpublishingled-displaystarlarkled-matrix-displays
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