I am Matt Thomas.

Now with Twice the “Mattic”

November 17, 2006

On Monday, I’ll begin the next stage in my professional life by joining the amazingly talented team at Automattic. Surprise!

I first “met” Matt Mullenweg (I use quotes because we’ve only talked online and over the phone, so far anyway) about a year ago, after doing a bit of freelance design work for TextDrive. My name came up when he was looking for someone to design the identity of his new venture, Automattic. From there I went on to design wordpress.org and several other projects of theirs before ending my freelance work earlier this year. Matt and I got to talking one Saturday evening a few weeks ago, and his passion for what’s planned at Automattic and learning about the way the company operates was enough for me to know it was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up.

The unfortunate corollary to this is that today was my last day with Silverpoint. I’ve grown a great deal as a designer and programmer in my time with the company, and got to work with some extremely talented and fun-to-be-around folks. It was my first “real” job after college, and I’ll remain ever grateful to them for taking the chance on an unproven designer with no experience but the willingness to move to Baltimore.

I’m excited to get started on Monday and see what fruits my new endeavor will bear. Here we go!