Matthew Horton
Owner at Horton Software
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Horton is a product-focused technologist and founder with 12 years of experience building customer-facing web and mobile products across financial services, media, and audio research. He blends hands-on engineering (iOS, Android, Linux, APIs) with product leadership—most recently as a Product Manager at Capital One and now leading Horton Software—guided by a unique MA in Music, Science & Technology from Stanford. His work spans UX engineering (notably UI polish and video features for the JackTrip open-source audio networking project) to coordinating cross-functional partners to scale high-revenue features and in-person customer experiences. Comfortable shipping full-stack solutions and driving discovery, he pairs design-thinking practice from the d.school with strong technical chops from early engineering roles at Garmin and Smule. That combination lets him translate research-driven insights into polished, measurable product outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Oklahoma State UniversityMaster of Arts (M.A.), Music, Science, and Technology, Master of Arts (M.A.), Music, Science, and Technology at Stanford University
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Github Skills (5)
qml10
qtquick10
user-interface10
c-language8
cprogramming-language8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jacktrip/jacktrip
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
JackTrip: multi-machine audio network performance over the Internet.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:26 releases, 105 reviews, 632 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on the development of the user interface for the JackTrip application. Their contributions included implementing drop shadows and fixing scrolling issues within the Browse.qml file. The user also made UI polish changes within the Settings.qml and FirstLaunch.qml files, and added a video feature, suggesting a focus on front-end development and UI/UX improvements. In addition, the user made build and setup configuration changes.
jacktripnetwork-performanceaudio-streamingnetworkingaudio
mattahorton/Audity
Feb 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:5 releases, 146 commits, 115 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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