Matt Gaunt-seo
Founding Engineer at Detail
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Gaunt-seo is a versatile founding engineer with 11 years of experience building developer-focused tooling, testing and automation, and developer experience improvements. He spent recent years working in Golang within Google's Open Source Programs Office, and has a deep background delivering web platform features like web push and offline PWAs as well as early work on mobile platforms and Chromecast/Google TV launches in Europe. Matt combines practical startup and product experience from roles at Sentry and Augment with open-source fluency—maintaining demos like a widely referenced simple-push-demo that modernized web push examples and testing. Based in Berkeley, he brings a hands-on approach to shipping reliable systems, simplifying integrations, and improving developer workflows across front-end, back-end, and test infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Masters with First Degree Honors Computer Sciene, Masters with First Degree Honors Computer Sciene at University of Bristol
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Github Skills (24)
javascript10
testing10
push-notifications10
webpush10
service-worker10
google-chrome10
async-await10
firebase-cloud-messaging10
firebase10
web-application9
selenium9
vercel9
selenium-ide9
progressive-web-apps9
css9
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
gauntface/simple-push-demo
Jan 2021 - Jul 2022
A simple example of use push notifications on the web using Service Workers
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 9 reviews, 45 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Matt made significant contributions to the `simple-push-demo` repository, focusing on updating dependencies, migrating to async/await, and fixing Selenium tests. They also addressed linting issues and added a linting action. Further work involved refactoring the project to use modules, adding browser tests, and switching to Vercel for the backend. The user also updated the code to correctly handle base64 encoding and simplified the demo's push notification functionality.
push-notificationsservice-worker
gauntface/html-asset-manager
Apr 2020 - Jun 2022
Node wrapper for go-html-asset-manager
Contributions:1 PR, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
golangasset-managernodejsassetnode-wrapper
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