Matthew Olson
Software Engineer at WorkOS
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Olson is a seasoned software engineer and founder with over two decades of experience building and scaling products from zero-to-one and transforming architectures at high-growth companies. Based in San Francisco, he blends hands-on engineering in languages from Ruby and Go to TypeScript with strategic technical leadership—decomposing monoliths into microservices, evangelizing distributed tracing, and founding a Performance Enablement team to align SLO-driven practices. As founder and CTO of Snowpack he designed a Remix/Cloudflare Workers frontend and a Go/gRPC backend with Temporal for resilient sync, growing an organic waitlist of ~4,000 users. His open-source contributions include meaningful front-end optimizations to BigCommerce’s widely used Cornerstone theme, improving performance and responsiveness. Comfortable navigating ambiguity, he pairs pragmatic, forward-thinking decisions with mentorship to drive scalable, measurable outcomes across cloud-native and distributed systems.
13 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Computer Science, B.A. Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
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Github Skills (14)
html10
theme-development10
javascript10
webpacker10
webpack10
lazyload9
lazy-loading9
css9
ampl8
google-amp8
ajax6
file-upload6
jquery6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
bigcommerce/cornerstone
Aug 2015 - Dec 2019
The BigCommerce Cornerstone theme
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 65 commits, 49 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on front-end improvements for the BigCommerce Cornerstone theme. They addressed image size issues in AMP templates by dynamically using image dimensions. They removed the Modernizr library, improving page responsiveness and streamlined carousel functionality, and updated various Javascript libraries. Further commits included lazy loading and JavaScript optimizations.
bigcommerceecommercecornerstone
bigcommerce/paper-handlebars
Dec 2017 - Nov 2021
Paper plugin for rendering via Handlebars.js
Contributions:9 releases, 36 reviews, 79 commits in 3 years 11 months
renderingpaper-pluginhandlebarshandlebars-js
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