Matt Bradley
Founder at Upthread
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Bradley is a founder and product-focused engineering leader with 17 years of experience building startups and shipping developer-facing systems from San Francisco. He blends product design, UX and hands-on web/mobile development with senior product roles (CPO/VP) and multiple successful exits, currently leading Upthread. A prolific open-source contributor, Matt has improved core Git tooling and networking libraries—contributions span libgit2, git-tfs, Typhoeus and the git-scm.com site—demonstrating deep expertise in version control and HTTP transports. Known for turning low-level backend work into product-ready features, he bridges the gap between C-level product strategy and C/C#/Ruby implementation details.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (43)
rubocop10
git10
hugo10
libgit210
lib10
apidoc10
rubygems10
testing10
net10
http10
enforcement10
dotnet10
c1110
ruby10
c1710
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
git-tfs/git-tfs
Jun 2009 - Jan 2021
A Git/TFS bridge, similar to git-svn
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 21 reviews, 687 commits in 11 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily worked on the git-tfs bridge, contributing core functionalities. They were responsible for implementing the git-tfs command, including stubbing out parts of the interface, testing, and refactoring. The commits demonstrate the development of several core components, including help and related classes.
tfsversion-controlsimilarbridgelibgit2sharp
libgit2/rugged
Dec 2012 - Sep 2015
ruby bindings to libgit2
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 1 PR, 9 comments in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Rugged library, focusing on adding and refining methods related to merge base calculations within the Ruby bindings for libgit2. Their work involved implementing a new method `merge_base` in both C (ext/rugged/rugged_repo.c) and Ruby (lib/rugged/repository.rb) to find merge bases between commits. The user also expanded the functionality of `merge_base` to accept different input types such as commit objects and references. This involved modifying the C code and updating test files.
libgit2ruby-bindingsruby
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