Hey, I'm Matt 👋

Software Engineer and Tech Content Creator.

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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.

Work Experience

Magic Labs

Magic Labs

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%
ReactTypeScriptPayPalNode.jsDatadog
Steel Perlot

Steel Perlot

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%
ReactTypeScriptNext.jsTailwind CSSEthers.jsGraphQLPostgreSQL
Gemini

Gemini

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
TypeScriptReactHTMLCSSNode.jsPuppeteer
Square

Square

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
ReactReduxTypeScriptPythonFlaskShopify LiquidNode.jsSelenium
Twilio

Twilio

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
ReactReduxJavaScript

Open Source

Osmosis

Osmosis

Contributor

2023 - 2024
Magic SDK

Magic SDK

Contributor

2023 - 2024

Education

Hack Reactor

Hack Reactor

Certificate, Full Stack Web Development

2017 - 2018
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

B.S. in Industrial Engineering

2013 - 2017

Skills

ReactNext.jsTypeScriptNode.jsPythonPostgreSQLRedisDockerAWSTailwind CSS

Contact

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