Matt Ao
Engineering Manager at Epic Games
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Ao is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience building and leading teams across consumer tech and gaming, currently managing engineering at Epic Games in New York. He has scaled product and platform teams through senior leadership roles at Spotify and as Head of Software Engineering at Cover, and previously served as CTO of Betty Labs prior to its acquisition by Spotify. His background includes hands-on software engineering at Apple and TechSmith, giving him a strong blend of individual contributor craft and organizational leadership. Matt also brings entrepreneurial instincts—he founded and ran hospitality and entertainment ventures like an escape room and a private karaoke/billiards venue—which inform his user-focused, product-led approach to engineering. Although his GitHub activity is primarily in private industry work, his career shows a pattern of shipping consumer-facing, highly reliable systems at scale. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Michigan State University and is known for turning creative product ideas into operational teams and shipped products.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Michigan State University
Chinese
Stackoverflow
5,566reputation
236kreached
156answers
186questions
google-chrome
top-5%
macos
top-5%
cocoa
top-5%
Github Skills (70)
websocket-client9
cocoa9
sequelpro9
google-chrome9
macos9
swift8
starscream8
datasource8
faunadb8
websocket8
mariadb-database8
binding8
aurora7
pos7
software-update7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MattyAyOh/BLTakeHome
Oct 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:5 PRs, 14 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 2 months
MJason23/Mortality
Oct 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:197 commits in 1 year 3 months
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