Matt Lockyer
Many Hats
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Lockyer is a multidisciplinary software engineer and founder with 13+ years of experience building developer tooling, interactive experiences, and decentralized applications. He blends hands-on engineering (Rust/WASM, EVM, JS) with developer relations and business development, currently working on NEAR Protocol integrations and Aurora at Proximity while leading his token-engineering consultancy, Soloblock. His background includes PhD research in interactive arts and technology and teaching university courses on programming and generative systems, informing a UX-forward approach to protocol and wallet design. An active open-source contributor, he has improved both frontend UX (NEAR wallet-selector) and core JS functionality (near-api-js) for the NEAR ecosystem. Based in Vancouver, he prefers Twitter for quick updates and is known for thoughtful PRs and slower DM responses. He combines academic rigor with product instincts to ship production-grade crypto infrastructure and creative tooling.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at The University of British Columbia / UBCPhD, Interactive Arts and Technology, PhD, Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (23)
javascript10
nearprotocol10
css10
typescript10
blockchain10
typescript-types10
html10
smart-contracts10
typescripts10
authentication9
threejs9
ui-design9
nodejs9
wallet7
mongodb6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
near/near-api-js
Jul 2020 - Sep 2021
JavaScript library to interact with NEAR Protocol via RPC API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 92 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Matt focused on improving the functionality of the JavaScript library for the NEAR Protocol by fixing the logic for signing transactions when an access key is unavailable. They refactored the approach for checking access keys, ensuring correct transaction signing with multisig access keys. Furthermore, the user made code adjustments to the wallet-account.ts, lib/wallet-account.ts and related javascript files and test files.
apijavascript-libraryrpcethereumrpc-api
near/wallet-selector
Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
This is a wallet selector modal that allows users to interact with NEAR dApps with a selection of available wallets.
Role in this project:Frontend Developer
Frontend DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 22 commits, 9 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on improving the user interface of the wallet selector. Their commits addressed padding issues with the modal's close button and introduced a new icon. The changes involved modifications to CSS styles and the addition of a new image asset. These contributions directly enhanced the visual presentation of the wallet selector modal.
near-blockchainmodalwalletsethereumdapps
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