Matt Colyer
Director Of Product Management - Developers at Figma
Redwood City, California, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Colyer is a seasoned product leader and former founder with 26 years of engineering and product experience, currently directing developer product efforts at Figma after senior roles at Shopify, Adobe, and GitHub. He combines hands-on technical depth—contributions to open-source projects like libimobiledevice and ShareJS, and UI work for Atom—with strategic product leadership that has guided acquisitions and platform launches. Comfortable shipping across front-end, back-end, and infrastructure, he has a track record of building developer-facing tools and integrating cloud services (AWS, DynamoDB, S3). A serial entrepreneur (Easel, acquired by GitHub) and YC alumnus, he blends startup grit with scaled-product discipline to bridge developer needs and business outcomes.
26 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
W06 S12, W06 S12 at Y CombinatorGeneral Engineering Computing Focus, General Engineering Computing Focus at Franklin W. Olin College of EngineeringThomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
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Github Skills (37)
asynchronous10
atom-editor10
javascript10
c-language10
ios10
coffeescript10
application-settings10
async10
fuse10
gnutls10
user-interface10
c1110
ui-design10
c1710
amazon-dynamodb10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
libimobiledevice/libplist
Jul 2008 - Oct 2008
A library to handle Apple Property List format in binary or XML
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:48 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Matt contributed significantly to the `libplist` project, which handles Apple Property List formats. Their work involved removing unnecessary constants and adapting code to work with GnuTLS. They also implemented initial support for a FUSE filesystem, including file attribute retrieval, directory listing, file opening, and file reading. Furthermore, the user addressed bugs and incorporated documentation and licensing information.
property-listxmlplistccpp
libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice
Jan 2009 - Mar 2010
A cross-platform protocol library to communicate with iOS devices
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:45 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the core functionality of the libimobiledevice library, focusing on communication protocols with iOS devices. Their work involved removing unnecessary constants and adapting the library to work with GnuTLS, specifically version 1.6.3. Furthermore, the user implemented a read-only FUSE file system for accessing iPhone's filesystem. This included the addition of essential files and header files to support this functionality.
iosprotocolclockdownd
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