Matthew Keller
Co-Founder at Mathchops
New Jersey, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolMatthew Keller is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with a decade of experience building developer-facing tools and full-stack applications. As Co-Founder of THKP, LLC and an active engineer at Mathchops, he blends product leadership with hands-on coding to move ideas from prototype to production. His prior roles include full-stack work at Descript and six years at Google focused on tools and infrastructure, giving him deep experience in scalable systems and developer workflows. An active open-source contributor, he improved the JavaScript client for the popular Chroma embedding database—adding robust error handling, init diagnostics, and test integration—which reflects his bias for reliable, testable integrations. Based in New Jersey and trained at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, he pairs academic rigor with startup pragmatism. Colleagues describe him as the kind of engineer who refactors for clarity and ships with observability in mind.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (8)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
testing9
lm8
llm8
embedding8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
chroma-core/chroma
Mar 2024 - Feb 2025
the AI-native open-source embedding database
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:35 reviews, 12 PRs, 47 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on enhancing and refactoring the JavaScript client for the Chroma database. They implemented error handling improvements, including a custom fetch implementation for standardized error reporting. The user also integrated the testing environment by making necessary updates to get the testing script working locally and using testcontainers. Furthermore, the user introduced an initialization method to report database and tenant errors and completed multiple refactorings for the JS client.
document-retrievalembeddingsllms
AlabasterAxe/glass_goals
Jan 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:39 PRs, 380 pushes, 33 branches in 1 year 9 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.