Matthew Rathbone
Chief Executive Officer at Rathbone Labs
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Rathbone is a product-focused technology CEO and founder with 14+ years building data-centric products and teams, currently leading Beekeeper Studio—an open-source SQL editor with over 1.25M downloads and daily use by 100k+ developers. He combines deep hands-on experience in big data engineering and front-end data tooling (including contributions to the popular Tabulator JS grid) with a knack for aligning Product, Marketing, Sales, and Ops toward a shared north star. As founder of Beekeeper Data and creator of DuckDocs, he excels at turning complex datasets into usable products and guiding teams from strategy through execution under tight timelines. Based in Dallas, he also consults through Rathbone Labs to rescue or launch high-impact products, and brings a pragmatic mix of technical curiosity and leadership proven across startups and enterprise environments.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at New York UniversityLLB Law Exempting (Hons), Law, Research, LLB Law Exempting (Hons), Law, Research at Northumbria University
Stackoverflow
8,165reputation
1.0mreached
101answers
63questions
hive
top-1%
hadoop
top-1%
Github Skills (19)
json10
javascript10
hadoop10
hive10
tabulator10
datagrid10
html7
api6
amazon-ec26
amazon-emr6
amazon-s36
mapreduce6
foursquare6
oozie6
amazon-web-services6
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
olifolkerd/tabulator
Jan 2022 - Jun 2022
Interactive Tables and Data Grids for JavaScript
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 7 commits, 17 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on improving the functionality and features of the Tabulator library, a JavaScript data grid. Their contributions included fixing bugs related to virtual DOM rendering and scroll state, enhancing the JSON downloader to utilize column titles, and implementing a JSON Lines downloader for big data applications. They also added features like max initial column width and addressed UI interactions by dismissing menus when editing cells.
widgetdatagrid-layoutcdnjsajax
rathboma/rathboma.github.com
May 2015 - Sep 2020
My website
Contributions:5 PRs, 165 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
react
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