Matt Manela
Engineering Manager at Sourcegraph, Inc.
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RockstarMatt Manela is an engineering manager with 16 years of hands-on software experience who builds high-performing teams and products while staying deeply involved in code. He bridges full-stack development and developer tools, with notable open-source contributions to Sourcegraph (code search and syntax highlighting), Azure Repos for VS Code (pinned queries UX), and CLI tooling for TFS, showing strength in search, editor integrations, and backend APIs. Comfortable across front-end UI, C# libraries, and command-line backends, he repeatedly improves developer workflows and testability (e.g., Chutzpah UI and DiffPlex diffing features). He combines pragmatic leadership with a maker’s mindset—continuing to ship features and fixes himself rather than purely managing from afar. Colleagues describe him as detail-oriented about robustness and UX, evident from work handling error conditions and linting fixes in major Microsoft repos. Based in the United States, he brings product-focused technical leadership that scales both teams and tooling.
16 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (63)
azure-devops-server10
javascript10
silverlight10
jquery10
code-search10
apidoc10
searchbox10
command-line-interface10
typescript10
ui-design10
vscode-extension10
uid10
searchbar10
api10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
mmanela/diffplex
Feb 2010 - Mar 2022
DiffPlex is Netstandard 1.0+ C# library to generate textual diffs.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 21 reviews, 96 commits in 12 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Matt contributed to the development of a C# library for generating textual diffs. Their work focused on implementing UI elements and integrating the diffing functionality within a Silverlight application. They added features like word diffing for monospaced fonts and improved the user experience by implementing auto-diffing on key presses and scroll synchronization. The commits indicate involvement in both the frontend and backend aspects of the project.
diffstextualnetstandardc-library
mmanela/chutzpah
Jul 2013 - Jul 2022
Chutzpah is an open source JavaScript test runner which enables you to run unit tests using QUnit, Jasmine, Mocha and TypeScript.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:30 releases, 3 reviews, 585 commits in 9 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the development of the Chutzpah framework's user interface, focusing on integrating HTML templates and modern JavaScript frameworks like React. Their commits demonstrate a strong focus on creating and maintaining visual elements. The user was also responsible for the addition of tests, suggesting a focus on both functionality and user interface components. They also improved the compatibility of HTML template imports.
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