Michael Telatynski
Senior Software Engineer at Element
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Telatynski is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years’ experience, based in London, who specializes in building and improving Electron and React-based collaboration clients and their ecosystems. He has been a consistent contributor and maintainer across the Matrix/Element stack—shipping desktop and web UI improvements, WebRTC and federation features, and Synapse server fixes—demonstrating fluency across front-end, back-end and specification-level work. At Element he progressed from software engineer to senior engineer, owning cross-platform packaging, upgrade paths and accessibility improvements while migrating test suites to modern tooling. His open-source focus on decentralization and privacy-preserving systems pairs practical product delivery with protocol-level contributions to matrix-spec-proposals, reflecting both implementation and design sensibilities. Notably, he has hands-on experience upgrading complex Electron apps, resolving platform-specific build issues, and improving browser compatibility for real-time features like screen sharing.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
A Levels, Computing, Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Electronics, A Levels, Computing, Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Electronics at Blackpool Sixth Form CollegeBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at The University of Manchester
English, Polish
Github Skills (43)
accessibility10
javascript10
matrix10
python10
electron10
apidoc10
api-design10
component-design10
builder-pattern10
css10
typescript10
user-interface10
ui-design10
syn10
uid10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk
Mar 2017 - Jan 2023
Matrix SDK for React Javascript
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3996 reviews, 5990 commits, 5264 PRs in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Michael's commits primarily involve making improvements and fixes to the user interface of the Matrix React SDK, specifically focusing on the space panel. The changes include implementing and refining keyboard accessibility features such as roving tab index. The user made modifications to styling and code in the structure of event tiles and tooltips, suggesting UI-focused development experience. The commits show a clear focus on improving the user experience and usability of the Matrix React SDK.
reactmatrix-chatjavascriptsdkmatrix-sdk
matrix-org/matrix.to
Aug 2017 - Jan 2023
A simple stateless privacy-protecting URL redirecting service for Matrix
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 20 reviews, 23 commits in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on modifying the user interface components and the preview functionality of the application. They implemented changes to the display of spaces by adjusting the border radius. Additionally, the user made updates to the UI based on the changes between "Tabs" and "Spaces" throughout the code. The commits also included modification of the Element integration to fix encoding issues.
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