Matt Hooper
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolMatt Hooper is a Senior Software Engineer based in Lisbon with a decade of experience building reliable, developer-focused systems across startups and large tech companies. He has progressed from junior roles into leadership positions, most recently serving as Lead Software Engineer at OutSystems and now at Datadog, bringing both hands-on coding and team-level ownership. Matt contributes to high-impact open-source tooling—most notably enhancing rust-analyzer’s inlay hint capabilities—improving IDE ergonomics for Rust developers. His background blends backend systems, web front-ends, and performance-sensitive engineering work (from ASP.NET and Java GUIs to modern asynchronous JavaScript), grounded in an MSci in Mathematics and Physics. Colleagues know him for shipping pragmatic improvements that ease developer workflows and for turning research-grade prototypes into production-ready features.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MSci Natural Sciences (Hons.) Mathematics and Physics, MSci Natural Sciences (Hons.) Mathematics and Physics at Durham UniversitySt. Boniface's Catholic College
Github Skills (6)
language-server10
rust-analyzer10
rust10
language-server-protocol10
server10
testing9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rust-lang/rust-analyzer
Mar 2020 - Oct 2020
A Rust compiler front-end for IDEs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 2 PRs, 12 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Matt contributed significantly to the `rust-analyzer` project, focusing on enhancing the language server's features. Their work includes adding new inlay hint kinds, specifically for method chaining, and incorporating related configurations. The user also implemented and refined rendering mechanisms for these new inlay hints in the editor, and wrote unit tests. These changes improved the IDE's ability to provide more informative and context-aware code assistance to developers.
compilerfrontendrustlsp-server
M-J-Hooper/GridIO
Sep 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:51 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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