Matt Blair
Engineering at WorkWhile
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Blair is a seasoned full-stack engineering leader with 15 years of experience building developer tooling, reliability platforms, and revenue-driving systems across companies like Rippling, Rivian, Slack, and Stripe. He excels at scaling teams and platforms—growing multiple teams from small groups to 10+ engineers while driving measurable outcomes such as doubling revenue, slashing install times, and improving reliability from the 70s to the high 90s. Hands-on and pragmatic, Matt has personally shipped testing frameworks, CI/CD and build/release processes, and reduced top-reported errors by orders of magnitude. His background spans backend services, OTA and device platforms, search, and revenue automation, complemented by early-career full-stack and .NET architecture work. An open-source-minded builder, he contributes algorithm implementations and practical linting improvements on GitHub, reflecting a mix of foundational CS interests and product-focused engineering. Based in San Francisco, he combines deep technical craftsmanship with repeatable leadership that turns operational pain points into scalable systems.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Computer Science, Bachelors Computer Science at Virginia Tech
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Github Skills (18)
algorithm10
algorithms10
javascript10
trie10
testing10
data-structure10
linked-list10
binary-search-tree10
data-structures10
nodejs10
mergesort9
quicksort9
linting8
object-oriented-programming8
nlp7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
duereg/js-algorithms
Aug 2012 - Mar 2022
Javascript versions of classic software development algorithms
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:190 commits, 26 PRs, 73 pushes in 9 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the implementation of data structures and algorithms in JavaScript. The user's work focused on creating and testing linked lists, binary search trees, and a suffix tree along with algorithms like merge sort and quicksort. They also worked on a simple Blackjack game, showcasing their understanding of object-oriented programming principles within a practical example. The commit history highlights their focus on building foundational code and providing tests to ensure correctness.
javascript
btford/write-good
Jun 2014 - Feb 2021
Naive linter for English prose
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the functionality of the `write-good` linter by adding features like adverb detection, cliche detection, and too-wordy phrase detection. They implemented these features by modifying the core logic of `write-good.js` and adding corresponding tests in `test/basic.spec.js`. Furthermore, the user updated dependencies, added linting and made other improvements to the codebase for maintainability and code quality.
linter
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