Matthew Hovanec
Member Of Technical Staff at Hova Labs
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Hovanec is a versatile software engineer and maker with 12 years of experience blending full‑stack JavaScript, embedded Linux, and hardware work to move ideas from prototype to production. Based in Berkeley, he has led frontend and design‑system efforts at companies like Discord, Ubiquity6, Oqton, and Autodesk while also shipping hardware‑adjacent platforms for 3D printing and controller firmware. As co‑founder of Hova Labs he co-created the open source Hovalin 3D‑printable violin, reflecting a longstanding passion for parametric CAD, maker culture, and STEM education. He frequently bridges developer experience and product needs—migrating monorepos, implementing shared business logic for web/mobile, and running design systems that let teams move fast. Comfortable with audio tools and electro‑mechanical projects, he brings an unusual mix of creative signal‑processing hobby work and production engineering discipline. Currently helping build an open space for collective AI exploration, he thrives where software, hardware, and design intersect.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSEE) Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSEE) Electrical Engineering at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (200)
component-library10
svg10
3d10
api10
node-serialport10
nodejs10
styles10
calendar-widget10
css10
hardware10
typography10
controller10
windows10
styled-components10
styled-system10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
discord/embedded-app-sdk
Mar 2024 - Nov 2024
🚀 The Discord Embedded App SDK lets you build rich, multiplayer experiences as Activities inside Discord.
Contributions:75 reviews, 119 PRs, 119 pushes in 8 months
Autodesk/motion-controller-emulator
Dec 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:29 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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