Hey, I'm Matt 👋

Software Engineer and Tech Content Creator.

About

I love learning and building. Always been a creator at heart. In my free time, I love skiing, snowboarding, hiking, camping, and nature photography.

Senior Software Engineer

2023 - 2024

Led the PayPal Fiat Onramp integration, planning, implementation, and cross functional communication (Engineering, Product, Marketing, PayPal teams), enabling 1,000+ users to fund Magic wallets via PayPal.
Led the Node Upgrade - from Node 14 to Node 18. Ensured Magic SDK versions, the Magic Frontend, and 18+ Blockchain packages were compatible with Node 18, for 40,000+ customers using the Magic SDK.
Implemented robust Monitoring and Logging features into the Magic Frontend (React, TypeScript). Built Dashboards with Datadog, defined SLOs and built monitors, increasing response time to outages by 40%

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Senior Software Engineer

2022 - 2023

Led implementation of product features such as purchasing NFTs through the Atlas UI (React, TypeScript, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Ethers.js, Opensea APIs), and conducted transactions on the blockchain testnet / mainnet.
Built end to end whitelisting for Atlas, using GraphQL, a PostgreSQL onboarding table, feature flags, API calls to check if users were whitelisted, added Twitter / Discord authentication, allowing 100+ users beta access.
Developed a gamified points and referral system for new users, using React, Typescript, PostgreSQL, GetWaitlist API and Convertkit API, increasing conversion rate of onboarding by ~30%

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Senior Software Engineer

2022 - 2022

Led an accessibility audit (TypeScript, React, HTML, CSS), preventing $100k+ worth of ADA lawsuits.
Improved Google Lighthouse accessibility scores, resulting in score increases from 75 to 95+ (all site pages).
Reduced regressions by implementing automated accessibility testing with Node.js, Puppeteer, jsx-a11y linting rules, React-axe / axe-core, Lighthouse CI, resulting in 60+ engineers developing with accessibility in mind

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Full Stack Software Engineer

2018 - 2022

Built an automated onboarding experience from scratch by contributing to design decisions and tech choices (React, Redux, TypeScript, Python, Flask), and automating KYC, converting 100k+ SMBs to customers.
Developed a Shopify app (React, Shopify Liquid) that allowed merchants to place a "Check out with Afterpay" button and customize color / size / position, saving 50+ hours a week of prior manual merchant integrations.
Created web scraping scripts for merchant outreach, found over 40,000 potential merchants using Python with Selenium and Node.js with Puppeteer, saving 1,000+ of hours of manual effort for sales teams

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Full Stack Software Engineer (Internship)

2018 - 2018

Built a Plans / Pricing page for Twilio Studio using React, Redux, JavaScript, converted 10k+ devs to customers.
Fixed bugs on Twilio Studio (visual flows), resulting in devs creating flows 10% faster

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