Matt Lott
Engineering Manager at Scribe
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Lott is an engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling product-focused teams and consumer-facing platforms from startup to growth stage. Currently leading Scribe’s Documents team in San Francisco, he blends hands-on technical chops with people-first management to own critical user experiences like editing, embeds, and integrations. Previously he led engineering at Reforge—driving AI/LLM integrations, improving retention to 88%, and shipping features such as an AI-powered semantic search that boosted usage by 60%. As a cofounder and former CTO of CodeCombat, he scaled a distributed team and product to 300K+ monthly active users while continuing to contribute back-end improvements to the open-source CodeCombat codebase. Comfortable across stacks—Typescript/React, Ruby on Rails, Node/Vue, AWS—he is known for creating scalable processes that balance rapid delivery with team well-being.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Western Washington UniversityMaster's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at Texas A&M University
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Github Skills (10)
coffeescript10
api8
apidoc8
visual-studio-code6
tastypie6
javascript6
vscode-extension6
django6
python5
database-design5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
codecombat/codecombat
Jun 2014 - Aug 2020
Game for learning how to code.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1753 commits, 251 PRs, 1463 pushes in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Matt's commits primarily focus on back-end development tasks, as demonstrated by code changes related to server-side logic and infrastructure. Their work includes implementing null checks, updating page counts, and refining existing functionality within the codebase. The user's contributions appear to center on improving and maintaining the server-side aspects of the application.
game
differentmatt/filbert
Mar 2014 - Nov 2017
JavaScript parser of Python
Contributions:69 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 years 8 months
javascriptparserpython
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