Matt Bartlett
J.S.D. Candidate
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolMatt Bartlett is a J.S.D. candidate at Columbia Law School and an experienced legal academic who blends deep scholarship on AI governance with practical teaching in technology law and legal ethics. Based in Auckland with 13 years' professional experience, he directs and lectures on courses that bridge law, society, and emerging tech at the University of Auckland. His doctoral research under Professor Anu Bradford focuses on regulation and governance of frontier general-purpose AI, positioning him at the intersection of cutting-edge policy and legal theory. Beyond academia, he contributes to open-source software—most notably back-end work on Loomio, a well-regarded collaborative decision-making tool—bringing hands-on development experience with Ruby on Rails to his interdisciplinary profile. He holds an LL.M. (High Honors) and is noted for turning complex regulatory questions into teachable, policy-relevant insights. An Auckland native with international training, he combines scholarly rigor with practical systems-thinking in both law and software.
13 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Laws with Honours (LLB)(Hons) and Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Laws with Honours (LLB)(Hons) and Bachelor of Arts (BA) at The University of AucklandInternational Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at Kristin SchoolDoctor of Juridicial Science | J.S.D., Doctor of Juridicial Science | J.S.D. at Columbia University
Github Skills (7)
database-migrations10
database-migration10
rails10
postgresql10
activeadmin10
back-end-development10
ruby-on-rails10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
loomio/loomio
Dec 2012 - Dec 2016
Loomio is a collaborative decision making tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:97 commits, 45 PRs, 39 pushes in 4 years
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Loomio application, focusing on features related to group administration, discussions, and motions. Their work involved modifications to database schema, model definitions, and database migrations using Ruby on Rails. The user also added functionality to the admin panel, enhancing its capabilities for managing discussions and motions.
decision-makingcollaborativedecision
Citizen-AI/twitter-network
Jul 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:41 commits, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.