Matthieu Dumont
Staff Software Engineer at Algolia
Greater Paris Metropolitan Region France
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthieu Dumont is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable search and crawling systems at Algolia, spanning C++, Go, Kubernetes, Rails and JS. He has driven products from MVP to revenue-generating services—most notably growing the Custom Crawler into an eight-person project handling millions of pages per day—and now works on core search and AI-powered NeuralSearch. A hacker at heart, he contributes to front-end open-source work like Algolia’s widely used autocomplete and instantsearch libraries, improving UX, compatibility and testability. Comfortable across front- and back-end stacks, Matthieu combines low-level performance engineering with product-minded full-stack development and a background in machine learning from EPITA.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Machine Learning, Machine Learning at EPITA: Ingénierie InformatiqueBaccalauréat, Scientifique, Baccalauréat, Scientifique at Lycée Condorcet
English, Spanish
Github Skills (21)
javascript10
widgets10
testing10
css10
autocomplete10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
react10
typeahead9
html-template9
python-templates9
apptemplates9
instantsearch9
cpp-templates9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
algolia/instantsearch
Sep 2015 - Mar 2016
⚡️ Libraries for building performant and instant search and recommend experiences with Algolia. Compatible with JavaScript, TypeScript, React and Vue.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:44 commits, 40 PRs, 80 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Matthieu primarily contributed to the `instantsearch` repository by implementing and refining frontend components and widgets. Their work included adding new features to the search box widget, such as the "poweredBy" option, and implementing new functionalities to the refinement list and menu components. The user also made changes to the template component, enhancing the flexibility of various widgets and addressing issues related to class name duplication.
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algolia/autocomplete
Jul 2015 - Jan 2017
🔮 Fast and full-featured autocomplete library
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Matthieu primarily focused on enhancing the autocomplete library's functionality and user experience. Their contributions include refactoring the typeahead namespace, implementing the `noConflict` method to prevent conflicts with existing JavaScript libraries, and introducing an `appendTo` parameter for customizing where the autocomplete suggestions are rendered. Furthermore, the user added testing to improve the library's reliability and maintainability. They also addressed Angular compatibility issues, preventing directive launch if an autocomplete value exists.
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