My passion: software product design, technical team leadership and hands-on software development on various platforms.
For the past 3+ years I have been building a scientific writing tool Manuscripts, a product with an incredibly ambitious task: change how scholarly content is written and submitted to journals.
Before and durign that time, I worked at the Apple Design Award winning Papersapp.com, setting the technical direction for and coordinating software projects involved in development of Papers for the Mac, iOS Windows, as well as the associated web service components. As a developer, I have extensive experience on especially the Apple platforms, Java and serverside JavaScript.
I begun work at Mekentosj -- an Apple Design Award and Ars Design Award winning scientific software company which became the Papers unit at Springer in an acquisition at 2012 -- as an iOS and then Mac developer. After 6 months I also took on co-directorship of the UK offshoot of Mekentosj, Livfe Ltd. At Mekentosj I too part in developing reference management and PDF reading application Papers2 for Mac, as well as Papers for iPad.
I have strong scientific training: PhD in molecular biology from University of Cambridge, and 1st class BSc in biochemistry from Imperial College London. My graduate research dealt with large scale machine learning methods for identifying gene regulatory signals.
Talks I've Given
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Deploying Serverside Swift Code in Production - Tales from the Bleeding Edge with Matias Piipari!
Featuring Matias Piipari
Are you interested in learning how you can build web services in Vapor? Come and join us for this month's instalment of iOSCon Bytes with Matias Piipari!
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Couchbase Mobile at PapersApp
Featuring Matias Piipari
Matias Piipari will speak about how he has built Manuscripts - a Mac OS X app) using the Couchbase Lite native SDK for data models and the Listener API for the editor (WebView) to view and manipulate data. Matias has also worked on Papers and will talk about the process of switching from SQLite...
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Advanced Grand Central Dispatch Tricks
Featuring Matias Piipari
Interested in finding out more about Grand Central Dispatch and learning best practices in how to use it? Then make sure you're at Matias' talk!
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