Matt Huisman
Vice President, Global Markets at Hustle Fund
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Huisman is a Vice President in Global Markets at BMO Capital Markets with 11 years of experience building commercial teams and structuring solutions in environmental commodities and climate finance. He combines front-line sales leadership—from scaling GTM for climate platform Patch to leading enterprise efforts—with early-stage and startup operating experience as a founder and director focused on measurable soil carbon innovation. A pragmatic dealmaker and product-minded seller, Matt has driven expansion markets at Clearco and supported climate-tech adoption through both commercial strategy and field execution. He also contributes to open-source media projects like Kodi, where he has made back-end contributions improving codec support and stream parsing—an unusual technical hobby that reflects a hands-on problem-solving instinct. Based in Toronto, he blends finance, strategic management studies across three universities, and a maker’s mindset to translate complex measurement and market problems into scalable commercial outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Specialization in Finance, Bachelor’s Degree Specialization in Finance at Western UniversityFinance and Economics, Finance and Economics at Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaThe University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Spanish, English
Github Skills (11)
stream10
hlsl10
c-language10
ffmpeg10
cprogramming-language10
kodi10
streaming10
android9
multimedia8
curl8
xml6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
xbmc/inputstream.adaptive
Aug 2019 - Oct 2022
kodi inputstream addon for several manifest types
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 reviews, 64 commits, 146 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the `inputstream.adaptive` repository by modifying the codebase to support various media formats and encryption methods. Their work included implementing support for Dolby Vision in HLS streams, handling different audio channel configurations, and addressing subtitle compatibility issues. They also refactored code for better readability and optimized the parsing logic for manifests.
manifestinputstreamvaapiaddonkodi
xbmc/xbmc
Apr 2020 - Oct 2022
Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 31 commits, 52 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Matt contributed to the Kodi media center project by fixing bugs, improving the codebase, and adding new features. The contributions include resolving an issue where the addon search function displayed duplicate results, preventing the sending of referer headers on redirects, and supporting the dvh1 codec on Android. The user also implemented functionality to pause audio playback when headphones are disconnected on Android, and implemented other minor updates.
pythonentertainmentc-plus-plusiosmultimedia
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