Matt Nichols
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Nichols is a software engineer and creative coder with a decade of experience building media-forward web experiences at scale, currently contributing to OpenAI’s comms design team in San Francisco. His background spans product and creative roles at Meta, Twitter, and Eyegroove, and includes co-founding a startup, giving him both executional rigor and entrepreneurial instincts. He specializes in bridging technology and media to make interactions more delightful and human-centered, with a track record of shipping polished front-end and interactive experiences. A Brown CS alumnus and former teaching assistant, he pairs deep technical foundations with a penchant for making things that are playful as well as useful. Notably, he has transitioned between big tech and startup contexts multiple times, demonstrating adaptability and a focus on designing for human connection.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Brown University
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Github Skills (44)
generative8
sveltekit-adapter8
svelte8
javascript8
sveltekit7
tailwindcss7
unify7
web-development7
spritekit6
typography6
flask6
xcode6
texture6
shadcn-ui6
python6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
flatpickles/sketchbook-legacy
Aug 2022 - Oct 2023
A collection of programmatic art pieces.
Contributions:2 PRs, 371 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
programmaticartpieces
flatpickles/flatpickles.com
Jan 2023 - Mar 2025
Flat Pickles 2.0
Contributions:4 PRs, 143 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
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