Matthew Mathias
Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Mathias is a software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building iOS apps and developer tooling, currently at Google. He blends rigorous social-science training (MA/PhD work in sociology) with practical engineering, bringing strengths in data-driven product decisions, teaching, and curriculum development from roles at Big Nerd Ranch and academia. At Google and in notable open-source contributions to projects like GoogleSignIn-iOS and GTMAppAuth, he focuses on Swift/SwiftUI front-end UX, API modernizations, and improving build and integration workflows. He has hands-on experience shipping production iOS features—profile image loading, sign-in flows, URL handling—and modernizing Objective-C APIs for Swift interoperability. Formerly an engineering manager and instructor, he pairs technical execution with mentorship and process design for course and team delivery. His background in quantitative methods and applied teaching gives him a rare mix of user-centered engineering and empirical rigor.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Sociology, BA, Sociology at Emory University
Github Skills (16)
user-authentication10
authentication10
swift10
swiftui-app10
ios10
mobile-development10
sdk10
oauth10
swiftui10
openid-connect10
cocoapods9
key-management9
keychain9
objective-c9
oauth-client8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
google/GoogleSignIn-iOS
Nov 2021 - Sep 2022
Enables iOS and macOS apps to sign in with Google.
Role in this project:
iOS Mobile Developer
iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 406 reviews, 126 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the development of a SwiftUI sample app within the Google Sign-In iOS repository. Their work involved implementing UI components, adding app icon assets, and integrating user profile image loading, and improving the layout, indicating a focus on the front-end user experience. They also updated directory structures, modified README instructions, and added related Podfile configurations, demonstrating a good understanding of project setup and build processes in the iOS ecosystem. Finally, the user integrated the Google Sign-in button and handled URL opening in the application.
sign-inios-sdksigngoogleauthentication
google/GTMAppAuth
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Apple platforms SDK for using AppAuth with Google libraries.
Role in this project:iOS Developer
iOS DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 122 reviews, 25 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the `google/gtmappauth` repository by implementing Swift translations and API redesigns for an iOS library. They focused on updating the library to support the new API and add testing for the Objective-C API. The user also worked on updating the codebase by adding explicit `@objc` names to the project and migrating older archives. They also updated method names to maintain the library.
apple-platformsplatformssdkoauth-clientios
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