Matthew Gerstman
Staff Software Engineer at Obvious
City of Syracuse, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Gerstman is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable, developer-friendly frontend and full-stack systems, currently based in Syracuse, NY. He has led cross-functional initiatives from architecting NextJS and TypeScript migrations to shipping Datadog’s Notebooks 2.0 to all commercial users, blending hands-on engineering with people leadership and incident coordination. Matthew is skilled at turning legacy codebases into maintainable platforms—introducing integration tests, strict typing, and robust reporting pipelines—and has a track record of mentoring engineers and promoting technical rigor. He also cultivates engineering culture through programs and events (Calamari, frontend summits, internal classes) that measurably improved collaboration and retention. Notably, he pairs product-facing shipping velocity with deep tooling work, having built reusable state systems and autogenerated API clients used across teams.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at University of Florida
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Github Skills (120)
sentry10
apollo-client10
jsx10
markdown10
javascript10
logback10
formatter10
sdk10
yaml10
html10
angular10
timber10
json10
git10
spring-boot-starter10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
matthew-gerstman/DMAssassins
Jun 2014 - Oct 2016
Contributions:592 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
matthew-gerstman/redux-codesplit-typecheck-example
Aug 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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