Matt Insler is a seasoned engineering leader with 16 years building scalable web and distributed systems, currently serving as Head of Product Engineering at Unreasonable Labs after senior engineering stints at Y Combinator, Alchemy, Uniswap Labs, and Airbnb. He pairs hands-on full‑stack execution—from C/C++ and Java backends to React frontends—with a proven track record of leading teams through platform migrations, microservices adoption, and large feature launches. Matt has founded and scaled startups (Awesometalk, Y Combinator W14) and led engineering through acquisitions, demonstrating both product intuition and operational rigor. He’s comfortable operating at the intersection of product, design, and engineering, having driven cross-company frontend standards and led multi-team initiatives at Dropbox and PageLever. A practical systems thinker, he’s equally at ease optimizing databases and worker fleets as he is mentoring teams and instituting processes that improve delivery and reduce miscommunication.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at University of Maryland
Long stack traces for node.js inspired by https://github.com/tlrobinson/long-stack-traces
Contributions:47 commits, 10 PRs, 20 pushes in 4 years 7 months
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Matt Insler - Head Of Product Engineering at Unreasonable Labs