Matt Dailey
Founder at Ref.
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Dailey is a founder and seasoned software leader with 11 years of experience building product-focused engineering teams and shipping scalable systems from startups to category-defining companies. Based in Berkeley, he led and grew Figma’s Growth Engineering organization from a one-person effort into a 24-engineer team, helping scale self-serve ARR dramatically while also spearheading localization, experimentation, and mentorship programs. He transitioned into AI applied research at Figma, prototyping AI search features, and now runs Ref., a startup connecting software agents with technical documentation and building ref.tools. Comfortable toggling between hands-on engineering, technical leadership, and early-product hustle, he has a dual background in CS and Physics from Carnegie Mellon and a history of shipping fast in early-stage teams. An unexpected thread through his career is a consistent focus on developer experience—APIs, search, tracking, and tooling—that surfaces in both product and infrastructure work.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (38)
rxjava9
reactive-streams8
redux-observable8
java8
redux-thunk8
asynchronous8
firebaseui8
jvm7
redux7
ide7
firebase7
rest-api6
cli6
react6
reactive-extensions6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
MatthewDailey/reactive-robot-firebase
Sep 2018 - Jan 2025
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 5 months
MatthewDailey/sequence-timer-web
Oct 2023 - Apr 2026
Contributions:158 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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