Matt
Martin

Matt Martin

Apps

Selfpsy

Selfpsy is a Big Five personality assessment suite that helps you understand and develop your psychological traits with a gamified AI journal that tracks your growth, emotional states and provides deep psychological insights into your unconscious mind.

Games

Aethercraft

AetherCraft is a dark fantasy RTS/RPG game where you channel the Aether to control your custom hero and conquer the celestial battlefield.

Blog

How to Build Apps with Parallel Agents

January 2025

Building products alongside a full-time job is one of the most asymmetric bets you can make. Learn how to build in parallel, keep multiple streams moving, and create momentum that survives real life.

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Projects

Canva | Leonardo.Ai

Senior Frontend Software Engineer (2024) before the Canva acquisition. Worked on UI performance for image feeds, Blueprints, and optimizing GraphQL caching.

Hireup

Senior Fullstack Engineer (2023). Upgraded tooling, reduced build time by 3x by fixing a styling bottleneck, fixed a pre-rendering related password vulnerability, and built features with high accessibility requirements.

Honeywell | Sine

Worked on large third-party integrations with thousands of Honeywell Global subsidiaries (2021). Created a GraphQL wrapper over microservices and built a scheduling app for 16k Bangalore office workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

About

Matt Martin is an independent developer and technologist exploring the intersection of software, design, and creative tools.

He has worked as a professional software engineer on production systems in both startup and large-scale environments, including teams whose products were later acquired by Honeywell and Canva.

His work spans hands-on development, experimentation, and product thinking, with a focus on building tools that are clear, useful, and grounded in real-world constraints.

Through personal projects and ongoing experiments, Matt documents what he learns while turning ideas into working software.

Matthew Martin