Grant Matejka

Full-stack engineer who loves to build in fast paced/startup environments

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About

As an engineer, I've built product verticals end users love and rely on. Building real things and shipping true value is what I love. With a Master's in CS and expertise in TypeScript, React, WebAssembly and Node, I've delivered production systems across a variety of contexts (e.g. microservices, api's, compilers, etc).

Work Experience

Andesite

Jun 2024 - Present

Software Engineer

Joined fresh out of stealth, as a full stack engineer, on a lean and seasoned team. Building the future of cyber threat decision making utilizing cutting edge technology and AI research.

Tulip Interfaces

July 2022 - Jun 2024

Software Engineer

Member of small team of engineers responsible with scoping and building of automated workflow product. Scoped, developed and tested flowchart/no-code editor for building said workflows. Built compiler and runtime to compile custom no-code AST to JavaScript, to be run in a sandboxed WebAssembly environment (QuickJS). Designed, standardized and built out public API’s across the engineering org

iFixit

Nov. 2020 - Jan. 2022

Software Engineering Apprentice

Responsible for maintenance of legacy codebase, with active conversion to modern systems. Did full stack development across highly structured/OOP, PHP backend and JS/React/NextJs frontend. Contributed heavily to conversion of custom built ecommerce engine to Shopify. Utilized Agile management across hybrid team with thorough quality assurance and code review practices. Wrote unit/integration/functional tests for continuous integration and deployment pipelines

The Parable Group

Jan. 2020 - Dec. 2020

Software Engineer Intern

Full stack SPA development using ASP.NET Core 3, the Blazor framework and Azure. Was responsible for the development of production website features and continuous research. Built an entire product offering from concept, to prototype, to launch

Education

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

2021 - 2022
Master's Degree in Computer Science

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

2017 - 2021
Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering

Skills

JavaScript
TypeScript
React
Node.js
WebAssembly

Projects

Rasm

A Racket to WebAssembly compiler

Master's Thesis
JavaScript
Scheme
WebAssembly

Advent of Code

Basic wasm program I wrote by hand in learning wasm

Side Project
Python
Algorithms
Data Structures

Some Readings

Code
Charles Petzold

Walking from braille to assembly; one of the greatest computer programming books ever written

Computers
Engineering
Education

Zero to One
Peter Thiel

Short and sweet collection of lectures challenging the status quo of startups and the industry of innovation

Startups
Engineering
Education

The War of Art
Steven Pressfield

Short and inspiring read for pursuing creative ventures

Philosophy
Creative

Where the Wizards Stay Up Late
Katie Hafner & Matthew Lyon

Engaging historical account of the birth and adoption of the ARPANET

Internet
History
Engineering

The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman

An all time classic of design and humans' interactions with the world

HCI
Design
Philosphy
Classic