Matthew Slipper
Director, Platforms
Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Slipper is a seasoned software leader with 11 years of experience, currently serving as Director, Platforms at OP Labs after progressing from Head of Engineering and TPM roles. He combines deep front-end expertise—four years focused on modern React/Redux stacks—with substantial back-end and blockchain engineering, contributing to major open-source projects like Filecoin's Venus and the Cosmos SDK. Matthew has co-founded and led startups, raised seed funding at Spectrum Labs, and built production ML and infrastructure systems, demonstrating a rare mix of product, security, and operational discipline. He’s comfortable moving between hands-on coding, architecture, and team-building, having managed engineering teams and defined SDLC and on-call practices. Based in Salt Lake City, he brings an entrepreneur’s instinct to platform-scale problems and a track record of shipping secure, enterprise-grade software. An interesting detail: his open-source work includes backend protocol and CLI improvements for high-profile blockchain projects, underscoring his focus on interoperability and developer tooling.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Palo Alto High SchoolBA Economics and Chinese Language Double B.A., BA Economics and Chinese Language Double B.A. at UC Santa Barbara
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
cosmos-sdk10
command-line-interface10
go10
filecoin10
blockchain10
command-line10
golang10
cli10
testing9
json9
apidoc9
tendermint9
api9
cryptocurrency8
maven6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
cosmos/cosmos-sdk
Aug 2018 - Jan 2020
:chains: A Framework for Building High Value Public Blockchains :sparkles:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 20 PRs, 61 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Matthew contributed to the Cosmos SDK, modifying command-line interface commands to improve usability, including replacing underscores with hyphens and supporting JSON files for proposals. They also updated the server configurations, including changes to testnet and export functionality. These changes involved modifications to core functionality within the `x/gov` package and client-side utilities.
golangcosmos-sdkblockchainchainscryptocurrency
filecoin-project/venus
Jan 2019 - Aug 2019
Filecoin Full Node Implementation in Go
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 10 PRs, 33 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Matthew contributed to the Filecoin Venus project by implementing and modifying backend functionalities related to heartbeat services, miner address broadcasting, and gas price/limit configurations. They refactored existing code, added features, and fixed bugs related to message sending and payment channel interactions. Their work involved modifying Go code, test files, and command-line interface components to ensure proper functionality and integration within the Filecoin ecosystem.
golangfilecoinfull-nodeblockchainvenus
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