Matt Sullivan
Principal Engineer at Ferovinum
California, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Sullivan is a Principal Engineer with 14 years of experience bridging research-grade AI and large-scale product engineering across telecoms, biotech, film, and IoT. He holds a PhD in AI and has a rare mix of senior leadership (CIO, Head of Mobile, Head of Device Platform) and hands-on delivery, including contributions to the popular Rive Flutter runtime and reactive Flutter apps. Comfortable shipping across Flutter and Python stacks, he has led 50+ engineer teams and driven company strategy while still writing production UI and animation code. Based in California and active across international markets, he combines deep academic training with pragmatic product instincts, often translating complex distributed or scientific systems into usable platforms. Notably, his background spans both proteomics research platforms and consumer-facing developer tooling, illustrating a talent for moving between domain-specialized and mainstream software.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Artificial Intelligence, Ph.D. Artificial Intelligence at Queen's University BelfastB.Sc. Computer Science, B.Sc. Computer Science at University College CorkPh.D. Proteomics, Ph.D. Proteomics at Queen's UniversityB. Sc. Computer Science, B. Sc. Computer Science at Växjö University
French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
web-widgets10
mobile-development10
widgets10
animation10
flutter-apps10
interactive10
flutter-game10
dart10
flutter10
firebase-authentication9
ui-design9
flutter-widget6
firebase6
mobile6
flutter-animation6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
rive-app/rive-flutter
Jul 2020 - Jun 2021
Flutter runtime for Rive
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 61 commits, 54 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the development of the Flutter runtime for Rive, focusing on adding features and improvements to the animation and widget components. They implemented a `RiveAnimation` widget, which streamlines the playback of animations from Rive files. The user also enhanced the core animation functionality by adding methods to the `LinearAnimationInstance` class, along with test cases, and refactored code to improve the user's interaction with Rive animations.
flutterdesignriveuianimation
filiph/state_experiments
Mar 2018 - May 2018
Companion repository to the "Build reactive mobile apps in Flutter" talk
Role in this project:Mobile Developer
Mobile DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
Contributions summary:Matt primarily worked on building a reactive mobile application using Flutter. Their commits demonstrate the implementation of a Scoped Model version of a catalog page, breaking the example into a separate Flutter app, and creating and updating UI components. The user also worked on adding styling and functionality to the cart page to enhance the user experience.
fluttermobile-application
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