Matt Chowning
Senior Frontend Developer at XOi
Troy, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolMatt Chowning is a Senior Frontend Developer with 12 years of mobile-first engineering experience, specializing in Android, Kotlin, and React Native for consumer and automotive platforms. He has led teams and shipped large-scale features—most notably building Pocket Casts’ Wear OS app and driving the mobile Gutenberg editor at Automattic—while improving performance (e.g., a 65% render-time reduction) and developer productivity through repo consolidation and CI stewardship. Comfortable across native and cross-platform stacks, he integrates tricky hardware and platform features like Bluetooth, Android Auto/Automotive, and on-device ML/OCR. A former practicing attorney, Matt brings rare analytical rigor and a focus on measurable outcomes to product and team leadership. He’s also an active open-source contributor to high-profile repos such as Pocket Casts and WordPress mobile, often improving editor rendering and UI reliability.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA, PSYCHOLOGY, BA, PSYCHOLOGY at Kenyon CollegeJ.D., J.D. at University of Michigan Law School
Github Skills (27)
kotlin10
editors10
objective-c10
javascript10
ios10
react-native10
mobile-development10
wordpress10
ui-design10
editor10
java10
android-library10
javas10
uid10
xcode10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/pocket-casts-android
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Pocket Casts Android 🎧
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:657 reviews, 595 commits, 565 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the development of the Pocket Casts Android application. Their commits focused on UI improvements and bug fixes. They addressed issues within the user interface, such as fixing display issues with the toolbar and UI elements on the starred screen. The user also added functionality to show notes screens and refactored the application to use more modern UI patterns.
androidpocket-casts
wordpress-mobile/AztecEditor-Android
Sep 2019 - May 2022
A reusable native Android rich text editor component.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 34 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the Aztec Editor for Android, focusing on enhancements and refactoring of the rich text editor component. Key changes involve allowing paragraph spans to not override the view's gravity, addressing alignment handling, and ensuring proper behavior with various block elements, including preformat spans, captions and lists. They also added tests to verify that the alignment approach does not affect the output HTML. These changes indicate work to improve the editor's behavior, rendering, and consistency with HTML output.
native-androidrich-text-editorandroidkotlineditor
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