Matt Hippely
Team Lead, Staff Software Development at Altium®
California, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Hippely is a hands-on frontend and full-stack engineering leader with 12 years of experience building scalable UI and API-driven products for startups and Fortune 500s. Currently a Team Lead and Staff Software Developer at Altium, he drives frontend architecture, monorepo infrastructure, and design-system-to-code pipelines while mentoring teams and designing realistic, AI-augmented engineering assessments. He helped scale VMware’s Clarity design system—an open-source library used by thousands of developers—contributing accessibility, datagrid, and datepicker features that improved enterprise consumption. Comfortable shifting between IC work and team leadership, he blends prototyping, research, and release engineering to turn ambiguous product needs into scoped, production-ready solutions. Based in California, he pairs a researcher’s curiosity (early career wet-lab experience) with practical engineering rigor to solve long-lived UX and developer-experience problems.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
B. Sci., Computer Science, B. Sci., Computer Science at California Lutheran UniversityChardon High SchoolB. Sci., Biology, B. Sci., Biology at Kent State University
English
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Github Skills (16)
accessibility10
html10
css10
uid10
typescript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
clarity10
typescript-types10
angular10
sass6
styles6
user-interface6
vmware6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
vmware-archive/clarity
Nov 2016 - Feb 2022
Clarity is a scalable, accessible, customizable, open source design system built with web components. Works with any JavaScript framework, built for enterprises, and designed to be inclusive.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:47 releases, 531 reviews, 608 commits in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the implementation and enhancement of UI components within the Clarity design system. Their work involved fixing bugs related to modal behavior, improving the accessibility of checkboxes, adding new features like the indeterminate state for checkboxes and the selection of a datagrid, and creating new features, like the implementation of a datagrid, and datepicker attributes. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to styling and theming, and made updates to the documentation.
accessible-designweb-componentsweb-components-libraryaccessibilityui-components
hippee-lee/clarity
Nov 2016 - Sep 2023
Clarity Design System: UX guidelines, HTML/CSS framework, and Angular 2 components working together to craft exceptional experiences
Contributions:7 reviews, 22 PRs, 1363 pushes in 6 years 11 months
clarity-designcsscraftexperiencesclarity
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