Summary
Matt Hartley is a Trust & Safety leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling safety operations at high-growth developer platforms, currently serving as Staff Safety Support Specialist at Vercel. He specializes in intellectual property enforcement, policy development, and cross-functional program execution, pairing legal-minded rigor with a customer-centric approach to reduce friction for stakeholders. At GitHub he helped stand up and transition Trust & Safety into Legal, led training and QA programs, and influenced product-side safety improvements with engineering partners. Matt’s background ranges from hands-on account support to strategic management, and his early international nonprofit work informs a long-standing emphasis on empathy and clear communication in high-stakes escalations.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Bible/Biblical Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Bible/Biblical Studies at Criswell College
Front-End Engineering, Front-End Engineering at The Iron Yard Academy- Greenville, SC