Matthew Kaufer
Software Engineer at Former Nonprofit
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Kaufer is a full-stack software engineer with 13 years of experience, currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI after roles at SignalFire and Scale AI. He specializes in TypeScript and React but brings strong backend chops from years building scalable services, AWS-deployed systems, and tooling (including work on the popular facebook-chat-api Node project). A Georgia Tech CS graduate, he has applied ML and signal-processing research to robotics and prosthetics and has built production OCR and analytics pipelines in healthcare and cloud infrastructure at Amazon and Remy. Comfortable shipping end-to-end solutions, Matthew also has a history of running web hosting services and organizing large-scale student tech events, reflecting both entrepreneurial drive and hands-on ops experience.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyThomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST)
Stackoverflow
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103answers
62questions
meteor
top-5%
Github Skills (19)
javascript10
facebook-api10
apidoc10
facebook-graph-api10
facebook-chatbot10
api10
facebook-chat10
nodejs10
debugging9
meteor9
html6
mongodb6
react6
css6
jquery6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Schmavery/facebook-chat-api
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Unofficial Facebook Chat API for Nodejs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 5 PRs, 19 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the `facebook-chat-api`. They addressed errors in `getUserId`, `sendDirectMessage`, and `sendDirectSticker` functions. Their work involved modifying code related to retrieving user IDs and sending messages/stickers, ensuring data integrity. They also returned entries in callbacks.
nodejs
mjkaufer/Stats
Mar 2014 - Jul 2015
:book: Crude tool to track lines of code written on GitHub. Needs lots of improvement.
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 3 months
linescrudelines-of-codeimprovementcli
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