Matt Irwin
Director at Watershed
Bellingham, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Irwin is a seasoned director and product leader with 11 years in technology, currently scaling teams and product launches at Watershed after a pivotal leadership run at Mapbox where he helped grow the company from 20 to 500 employees and drove multiple product launches and multimillion-dollar enterprise deals. He specializes in building small, high-leverage teams that deliver outsized business outcomes—closing major integrations and founding Mapbox’s government and humanitarian programs. His background is unusually interdisciplinary: earlier careers in sensitive diplomacy and field environmental research inform a pragmatic, risk-aware approach to stakeholder management and mission-driven product work. Based in Bellingham, WA, he pairs outdoor leadership and Wilderness First Responder training with a track record of translating complex operational challenges into scalable commercial solutions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Wilderness First Responder, Wilderness First Responder at Wilderness Medicine InstituteDamascus UniversityBachelor of Arts (BA) Philosophy and Political Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Philosophy and Political Science at Northwestern UniversityThe American University in Cairo
English, Arabic, French
Github Skills (95)
tiles10
mapbox-gl10
geojson10
3d10
openstreetmap10
javascript10
browser10
monorepo10
maps10
webgl10
vector-tiles10
vector10
mapbox-gl-js10
leaflet10
api9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mapbox/s3signed
Mar 2016 - Dec 2016
Generate a signed URL for a private S3 object
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 9 months
signed-urlsignedaws-s3aws
mtirwin/mgcp-diff
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 comments, 1 issue in 1 month
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