Matthew Utterback
Co-Founder at eKitabu
Middlebury, Vermont, United States
Summary
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SeniorMatthew Utterback is an entrepreneur and early-stage investor with eight years of documented experience building mission-driven ventures that blend commercial viability with social impact across Africa and Southeast Asia. As co-founder of eKitabu and Rex Mercury he has scaled accessible digital education to over 1,500 schools across 13 African countries and explored blockchain-enabled payments for emerging markets. His track record includes driving DDD’s growth from 80 to 800 employees, spinning out new ventures, and contributing to a startup acquired by Nielsen—demonstrating both operational rigor and product-market intuition. Based in Middlebury, Vermont, he pairs on-the-ground experience in low-resource contexts with a founder’s mindset and a history of catalyzing ideas into sustainable, award-winning enterprises. An often-overlooked strength is his ability to design open architectures and ecosystems that lower content costs while preserving local-language relevance and scale.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (22)
reader10
readium10
epub9
redux9
react8
electron7
data-files7
ebook-reader7
windows7
typescript7
macos6
data-entry6
desktop6
cross-platform6
architecture6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
eKitabu/readium-js-viewer
Jul 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
readiumjavascriptjs-libraryviewer
eKitabu/readium-shared-js
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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