Matthew Thomas
Partner at Thomas Oakley PLLC
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Thomas is a partner and seasoned business leader with nine years of combined experience building startups, advising venture-backed founders, and practicing complex corporate and civil rights law from Cambridge, MA. He co-founded and led corporate, product, and financing efforts at an AI/computer-vision startup and now runs a high-performance law practice that funds a dedicated civil-rights public interest arm, blending deal-side sophistication with impact litigation. Matthew brings hands-on operator experience—founding a software company and managing developer teams—alongside traditional Big Law litigation chops, giving him rare fluency across product, financing, governance, and social-justice advocacy. Known for clear communication and principled negotiation, he applies craftsmanship learned as a designer and sculptor to creative problem solving in legal and business contexts.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Philosophy, summa cum laude, BS, Philosophy, summa cum laude at Ball State UniversityJ.D., Law, magna cum laude, J.D., Law, magna cum laude at Washington University in St. Louis School of LawUniversity of Pretoria
English, Spanish
Github Skills (122)
hyper-v10
windows10
npm-package10
ubuntu10
look-and-feel10
operating-system10
qemu10
snap10
linux10
software-update10
multipass10
html10
libvirt10
container10
virtio10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
canonical/desktop-design
Apr 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:52 commits, 50 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 3 months
matthewpaulthomas/build.snapcraft.io
Feb 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:9 pushes, 12 branches in 4 months
snapcraft
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