Matt Gaunt-Seo
Work Experience
Detail
November 2025 - Present [Founding Engineer]
- Improved web app UX across core user flows
- Adding and supporting the addition of new scan types and features
Augment Code
October 2023 - November 2025 [Technical Team Member]
- Introduced OAuth, WebViews and release process for VSCode extension
- Implemented features into early versions of the IntelliJ extension
- Improved completions in VSCode and introduced them into IntelliJ
- Introduced a cross-client framework for running agents across both clients
- Team lead for IntelliJ extension, improving performance and reliability
Sentry
August 2022 - October 2023 [Senior Software Engineer - Developer Infrastructure]
- Led effort to move services to a multi-region deployment process
- Worked on integrating GoCD into developer workflows
- Supported junior engineers and guided team goals
April 2018 - April 2022 [Senior Software Engineer - Open Source Programs Office]
- Became familiar with the “Google tech stack” and shared responsibility in maintaining cron jobs, databases, websites, and CLI tools.
- One of my primary focuses within the team was educating and fostering a strong testing culture. After education, the team increased total coverage by 16%, and with presubmit checks, the team continued to improve quality and coverage.
- I supported Google’s GitHub enterprise plan and incident response teams with planning, tooling, and processes.
- Between December 2019 and January 2022, I became an Engineering Manager, initially for the compliance team and later took on the GitHub team.
- Required setting priorities for the teams, ensuring our services run smoothly, and ensuring the teams were happy during the pandemic.
April 2013 - April 2018 [Staff Developer Programs Engineer - Chrome Dev Rel]
- Team lead and core developer for early versions of Workbox, a service worker library for building PWAs; wrote a chapter on service workers for Smashing Book 5
- Led design and implementation of the Firebase Cloud Messaging Web SDK; later served as web platform lead reviewing API proposals and SDK architecture
Chromium-based WebView in Android
- Working with the engineering team, producing educational content, working with key partners in early access programs, advocating the change with external communities online, and presenting at conferences.
Future Platforms
May 2011 - June 2012 [Software Engineer]
Future Platforms was a small agency base in Brighton, UK.
- Worked in a small team to deliver various applications to clients.
- Developed for the Android, iOS, Nokia QT, and Blackberry platforms.
- Worked on a cross-platform framework called KirinJS.
Mubaloo
Sep 2010 - May 2011 [Software Engineer]
I was an intern for Mubaloo and a consultant before joining Mubaloo full time. The company grew from 5 to 40 people during my time there.
- Led the Android developer team.
- Project manager for several small projects.
- Regular meetings with clients.
- Android and Blackberry app development.
Skills
Technologies I’m regularly using at the moment:
- TypeScript / JavaScript
- HTML / CSS / JS
- Node
- Kotlin
Education
Masters with first-class honors in Computer Science from Bristol University 2006 - 2010