Matt Mcalister
Sr Director Of Premium Products And Services at Brave Software
London, England, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Mcalister is a senior product and media-tech executive with 13+ years of experience building digital news and privacy-focused consumer products, currently leading AI and premium offerings at Brave in London. He has a track record of founding and scaling ventures—from a media research startup and an open-journalism nonprofit to incubating Guardian spinouts like Contributoria and n0tice—and has repeatedly bridged editorial, developer, and business teams. At Brave he oversees browser AI, privacy-first conferencing, VPN, payments, and a private news feed, blending product strategy with platform-level privacy engineering. Raised in the Bay Area and a dual US–UK citizen, he pairs Silicon Valley roots with deep UK media industry experience, often turning hack-day prototypes into sustainable services. Non-obvious: he has successfully moved projects across the spectrum from API-driven developer initiatives to consumer privacy products, demonstrating both technical fluency and editorial sensibility.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (21)
electron10
windows10
chromium10
linux10
brave10
browser10
firefox10
android10
macos10
brave-browser10
payment-gateway9
publisher9
payment9
swift8
ios7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
n0tice/maptastica
Apr 2013 - Jun 2013
Contributions:13 commits in 2 months
kaleida/attention-index
May 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:57 commits, 32 PRs, 47 pushes in 4 months
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