Matthew Little
Staff Software Engineer at Hiro Systems PBC
Amsterdam, North Holland, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Little is a Staff Software Engineer based in Amsterdam with 13 years of experience designing scalable backends, blockchain systems, and cross-platform desktop and mobile applications. He has led architecture and implementation work at Hiro Systems and Hosho, building developer tooling and the first robust Solidity debugger integrated into an IDE. Hands-on contributions to notable open-source projects — including significant backend work on Stacks.js and multiple high-performance Node.js mining pool libraries — show deep expertise in crypto protocols, authentication flows, and storage. Matthew combines systems-level thinking (distributed data pipelines, pool servers, and DB-backed payment processing) with practical developer tooling and security-focused design. He’s as comfortable upgrading build chains and fixing subtle Flow/Babel issues as he is architecting EVM tooling and large-scale telemetry backends. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he often surfaces non-obvious stability and security improvements that keep production systems running smoothly.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Idaho
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Github Skills (56)
crypto10
webbrowser10
json-rpc10
asynchronous10
keccak10
javascript10
redis10
apidoc10
async10
user-authentication10
typescript10
authentication10
browser10
c1110
cryptocurrencies10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
zone117x/node-cryptonote-pool
May 2014 - Mar 2018
Mining pool for CryptoNote based coins such as Bytecoin and Monero
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:156 commits, 22 PRs, 24 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on developing the backend functionality of a CryptoNote mining pool. They implemented initial setup and core features of the pool, including the core logic for miners to connect, retrieve jobs, and submit shares. The user added share validation logic, difficulty adjustments, and vardiff support for dynamically adjusting the difficulty based on share times. The user also integrated and implemented payment processing.
miningazerothcorepoolingnode-jspool
hirosystems/stacks.js
Dec 2018 - Jan 2023
JavaScript libraries for identity, auth, storage and transactions on the Stacks blockchain.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:213 reviews, 421 commits, 127 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to fixing bugs and implementing features related to the functionality of the Stacks.js library. Their commits show involvement in storage implementation, including fixing issues in content-type handling for file uploads. Further, the user addressed various Flow syntax errors and upgraded to Babel 7 while improving intellisense for the Node.js library version.
stacks-blockchainblockstackjavascriptblockchainstacks
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