# Matthew Ng

> Founding Engineer, Tailor AI 🪡

Location: South San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/matthewng

Learn all aspects of front-end technology and programming; Make a visible impact on my work.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Tailor AI
Jan 2025 – Present

### Staff Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2018 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018
• Switched to Engineering to become a full stack developer
• Implemented part of spam detection for groups v1 full stack from DB to front-end
• Built new groups mobile app from the ground up, initially with 3 developers, eventually with 5 developers on the tail end of the release.  Groups mobile app was the first fully swift application released from LinkedIn.
• Integrated automated testing into the groups mobile application
• Full-stack development on in-app and push notifications for groups in Groups Mobile and Flagship Application.
• Implemented groups section in profile in the flagship iOS application

### Senior Web Developer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
• Contacts redesign
• Built promo integration to boost contacts usage
• Onboarding flow for phone web
• Served on committee to encourage web developers make a transition into mobile development

### Board Member @ Friends of Nagoya Theological Seminary (FONTS)
Jan 2019 – Jan 2024 | Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

### Missionary @ Christ Bible Institute
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
Built http://shingakkou.net/
Made delicious drip coffee and roasted beans
Taught English to Japanese college students
Met and built connections with Japanese community around the cafe (and nearby Aichi University)

### Independent Musician @ Collab High Five!
Jan 2009 – Jan 2012
Produce electronic (trance/house/progressive/breakbeat) music
http://www.facebook.com/collabhighfive
http://www.soundcloud.com/collabhighfive
http://www.collabhighfive.com

### Senior Web Developer/Team Lead (Mobile) @ LinkedIn
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
• I helped build http://touch.linkedin.com
• On a team of 3 developers, built the framework for mobile web from scratch.
• Integrated touch with webviews in iOS.
• I helped build http://tablet.linkedin.com
• Helped build and define style guide for tablet and phone, using SASS.

### Web Developer (Search) @ LinkedIn
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011
• Public Directory Search
• People/Job/Company Search Result Redesign
• Company hero slots in People Search
• Global Typeahead, adding categories
• 1 Second People Search Initiative, several client-side performance enhancements
• Placeholder/Ghost label widget rewrite
• Hackday Project: INStant: http://instant.linkedinlabs.com/ (with press coverage on readwriteweb)

### Senior Software Engineer @ Rearden Commerce
Jan 2006 – Jan 2009
• Integrated and automated YUI testing framework; Implemented initial set of unit tests for existing JavaScript files.
• Designed and implemented generic search results widget using object-oriented JavaScript and YUI library for AJAX requests using JSON.
• Implemented JSLint validation using Ant and Bash Scripting to validate company-widget JavaScript check-ins.
• Designed and implemented calendar groupware widgets that communicate with Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft. (Used OAuth protocol for authenticating Google logins).
• Built widgets to retrieve Endeca dimensions and display them in a tree selector and search result filters.
• Implemented Shipping Service using server-side and client-side JavaScript with a team of four engineers.
• Trained and guided two new front-end engineers during the project.
• Prototyped a Shopping Service that integrated with Amazon Web Services.
• Designed and implemented widget to retrieve and display recent transactions; Tuned widget for performance since it was displayed on the homepage.
• Implemented Ant deployment scripts to minify and bundle JavaScript for performance boosts.
• Introduced, integrated, and maintained YUI JavaScript library into the code-base.
• Created an initial set of widgets for use in Rearden's proprietary service builder framework (similar to Ruby on Rails).
• Implemented dining service from ground-up with one other engineer using server-side and client-side JavaScript.
• Re-factored travel stores to use internationalization.


## Education
### B.A. in Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

### High School in High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates
Thurgood Marshall Academic High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ngmatt
- Website: http://www.mattng.com
- Website: http://www.linkedin.com
- Website: http://www.collabhighfive.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-05