Matt Abrams
DX Developer Relations Engineer
Mamburao, Occidental Mindoro, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Abrams is a DX Developer Relations Engineer with six years of experience helping teams ship code, create developer content, and grow communities across startups and open-source projects. He has driven community and advocacy at companies like Builder.io, Railway, and Grafana Labs, contributing notable front-end fixes and accessibility improvements to the widely used Grafana observability platform. Comfortable building tools and teaching others, Matt blends hands-on front-end work with technical writing and community-building—he’s also worked as a technical editor at DigitalOcean. Based in Mamburao, he brings an uncommon humanities background (advanced degrees from Yale in art history and criticism) that informs his clear, user-focused approach to DX and developer education.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Art History Criticism and Conservation, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Art History Criticism and Conservation at Yale UniversityMaster of Arts - MA Art History Criticism and Conservation, Master of Arts - MA Art History Criticism and Conservation at UC Santa BarbaraUniversity of California, Los Angeles
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
typescript10
grafana10
front-end-development10
web-developer10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
frontend10
react10
data-visualizations9
accessibility9
ui-design9
data-visualisation9
data-visualization9
dashboard8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/grafana
Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 44 commits, 61 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the Grafana front-end, fixing UI/UX issues and implementing improvements. They addressed accessibility issues in library panels, added a copy button to the API key modal, and improved the autocomplete functionality of data links. The user also focused on improvements to the user interface, including changes to query editor and geomap components. They also made corrections to the text in the UI and revised LogQL examples.
visualizeobservabilitybusiness-intelligencegrafanaprometheus
zuchka/hyphen8
Dec 2020 - Oct 2021
a concurrent and pure-Elixir port of the Knuth-Liang hyphenation algorithm
Contributions:1 release, 39 commits, 2 PRs in 10 months
incrementalconcurrencyknuthhyphenationelixir
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