Matt Tognetti is a software engineer and founder with 14 years of experience building distributed, real-time, and product-focused systems from prototype to production. He has led engineering teams and startups (including a YC-backed Shift Messenger) and most recently worked on peer-to-peer and local-first technologies at Ink & Switch, contributing substantive refactors to the Automerge/Hypermerge stack to improve syncing and core data structures. As founder of Craft & Concept he consults on web product engineering, and his roles at Modern Treasury and BibleProject show experience across payments, infrastructure, and product delivery. Based in Portland, he blends hands-on backend engineering with product sensibility and a practical knack for simplifying complex distributed systems.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Build p2p collaborative applications without any server infrastructure in Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:155 commits, 43 PRs, 111 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Matt's contributions focused on refactoring and optimizing the core logic of the hypermerge project. This involved removing unused code, refactoring internal data structures, and modifying key classes within the project's architecture. Furthermore, the user addressed issues with the document's syncing behavior by modifying clock-related logic.
A cloud peer for pushpin to keep data warm while your computer is sleeping.
Contributions:43 commits, 17 PRs, 30 pushes in 3 months
keepsleepingorbitdblibp2ppushpin
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