Matt Van
CTO at HyperPlay
San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Van is a seasoned technology leader and gaming-focused CTO with 11+ years building and scaling engineering teams and products across startups and established studios. He blends hands-on expertise in Unreal Engine 5 and web3/blockchain stacks (Solidity, Solana, Ethereum) with a track record of founding and growing companies from MVP to large-scale teams, including bootstrapping Optic Power from 2 to 350+ people. At Riot Games he led Live Stats for esports, and today he’s shaping player-owned game infrastructure at Proof of Play while advising HyperPlay. Comfortable teaching teams cutting-edge tech as well as rolling up his sleeves to implement it, he pairs product intuition with operational rigor. Based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, he brings a gamer’s passion to technical strategy—turning play-first ideas into production-grade systems.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
CCNA Cisco CCNA Certificate, CCNA Cisco CCNA Certificate at Box Hill TafeBachelor Information Technology - Computer Science, Bachelor Information Technology - Computer Science at Swinburne University of Technology
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Github Skills (185)
testing10
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evm10
ethereum10
react-component9
lambda9
inline-styles9
android-apps9
developer-tools9
ruby9
python9
sketch9
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
mattvv/tips
Jul 2017 - Aug 2020
Mostly experimenting with CI tools and google cloud
Contributions:14 PRs, 49 pushes, 12 branches in 3 years 1 month
gcpappengineexperimentingapp-enginegoogle-cloud-platform
opticpower/tracker
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
A Kanban style board for Pivotal
Contributions:88 reviews, 47 commits, 50 PRs in 2 months
pivotaltypescriptkanbanboard
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