Matt Platoff
Senior Software Engineer, Android at Instagram
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Platoff is a Senior Android engineer with 11 years of experience building consumer and enterprise mobile experiences, currently bringing generative AI tools for creators to life at Instagram. He has deep Android expertise from roles at Lyft and Amazon, where he focused on driver-facing apps and developer empowerment for the Amazon Music platform. Early work spans machine learning research into cyberbullying detection and practical UX improvements at Vanguard, showing a blend of research-minded problem solving and product-driven impact. Based in San Francisco, he pairs strong engineering fundamentals in Java/Kotlin with experience shipping at scale across high-traffic consumer products. Notably, his career includes hands-on roles from defense-related image processing to startup consulting, reflecting a curiosity for diverse, real-world technical challenges.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Mathematics and Computer Science at Rutgers University
English
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Github Skills (15)
datagrid8
charts8
angular8
datatable8
angular-ui7
typescript7
component-library6
redux6
ui-components5
react5
javascript5
emr5
frontend4
couchdb4
pouchdb2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mattplatoff/dbFinalProject
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:39 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 22 days
mattplatoff/mattplatoff.github.io
Jan 2017 - Jul 2020
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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