Matthew Trost
Co-Founder at Superoot®
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Trost is a New York–based technical founder and software engineer with over a decade of experience building creative developer tools and interactive web experiences. As Co-Founder of Superoot and prior CTO/founder roles at startups like Haiku, Aesthetic, and Plato Design, he blends hands-on full‑stack engineering with product leadership to ship design-focused tooling and animation systems. He has a track record of improving developer experience—evident in contributions to the HaikuTeam/animator repo where he streamlined demos, refactored event handling, and fixed state rehydration issues to improve maintainability. Comfortable leading small teams and navigating YC-style startup environments, he pairs a background in mathematics and English with practical engineering instincts. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem solver who turns complex animation and UI challenges into developer-friendly workflows.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
YC W18, YC W18 at Y CombinatorBachelor's degree English Language and Literature/Letters, Bachelor's degree English Language and Literature/Letters at University of Missouri-Saint LouisMathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Borough of Manhattan Community College
Github Skills (12)
javascript10
event-handling10
react9
front-end-development9
code-optimization9
refactoring8
state-management8
refactor8
typescript-types7
testing7
typescript7
typescripts7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
HaikuTeam/animator
Jan 2017 - Oct 2018
Design tool for creating Lottie animations and interactive web components
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4472 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Matthew's commits primarily focused on improving the developer experience within the "animator" repository. Their contributions included implementing the ability to run "yarn demos" from the root directory, refactoring event handling, and addressing issues related to state management and code rehydration. They also checked for the overall integrity of the code and ensured its maintainability.
lottie-animationweb-components
tsortwehttam/Array2D.js
Aug 2014 - Jun 2019
:space_invader: Utility library for working with 2D arrays (arrays of arrays) in JavaScript
Contributions:99 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 4 years 10 months
javascript
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