profile

Matthew is a passionate and results-oriented software developer with over 15 years of experience crafting front-end solutions. He excels at tackling complex challenges, ideating innovative approaches, and delivering polished, user-friendly UIs that elevate the user experience. Throughout his career, he has been a vital contributor to the teams and organizations he's joined, driving consistent performance, pioneering cutting-edge technologies, and optimizing systems for efficiency.

Matthew designs and builds dynamic apis, UI features and components for applications using tools like Next.js, React, TypeScript and TailwindCSS. Beyond his professional work, he is an enthusiastic web3 hobbyist and creator, exploring decentralized technologies such as Solidity to develop innovative solutions, including NFT projects and single-page applications.

Matthew has also served his community for over a decade as a mentor, water safety lead, musical instructor, surf therapy coach, code teacher and more as a volunteer with organizations that serve foster youth, at-risk kids healing from trauma as well as children with special needs.

skills

Next.jsReactTypeScriptJavaScriptTailwindCSSgitGitHubCSS3HTML5AnimationPhotoshopFigmaShadcnMaterial UIBootstrapJIRAZeplinAWSEC2S3AmplifyA/B TestingConversion OptimizationGoogle AnalyticsSEORest APIe-commercegulpGruntVercelMocha*Chai.js*PHP*MySQL*SQL*Laravel*Node.js*Express*Nest.js*Jenkins*Solidity*ethers.js*
* Limited recent usage or intermittent usage

experience

Software Engineer @ PropertyLens

August 2024 - June 2025

  • Built and enhanced features for the main website (propertylens.com) and SaaS dashboard (my.propertylens.com) including developing and implementing API endpoints to facilitate seamless data integration and functionality for front-end applications
  • Designed and implemented interactive UI elements for the PropertyLens platform
  • Transformed design prototypes into responsive, user-friendly web interfaces compatible with mobile, tablet, and desktop devices
  • Converted Figma layouts into clean, maintainable code with a focus on performance and accessibility
  • Conducted code reviews, while troubleshooting issues to ensure robust functionality through testing

Software Developer @ NiftyKit

April 2022 - August 2024

  • Created and updated platform UI components
  • Developed new pages and features for NFT SaaS platform (app.niftykit.com) and multiple client sites
  • Built and unit tested Solidity contracts for 2 internal apps and a client site
  • Converted mockups & ideas into accessible, responsive web presence across mobile, tablet and desktop browsers
  • Translated Figma designs to code Developed client NFT mint websites and SPAs
  • Collaborated with clients to define solution requirements for custom components & single page applications (SPAs)
  • Code reviews, bug fixes and testing

Software Developer Contractor

July 2021 - April 2022

  • Explored new technologies like Web3 development and Solidity
  • Focused on building components for small non-profits to utilize Web3 as a donation hub
  • Sought ways to reduce the barrier to entry for foster youth and teens healing from trauma to enter the Web3 space through art and music
  • Developed NFTs for Charity solutions for non-profits
  • Updated old code bases and REST APIs to modern development standards, improving functionality
  • Integrated third-party tools and components into applications
  • Partnered with development team members on product development and application support plans
  • Managed and updated database entries and provided web development for non-profits

Frontend Engineer @ Tillster

March 2020 - July 2021

  • Led UI development on new SPA ordering flows for BK Germany
  • Improved UX by developing, testing and iterating UI components across touchscreen platforms
  • Played an integral role in developing new UI/UX for touchscreen kiosks serving multiple international clients (e.g. Popeyes (Spain), Burger King (US, UK, Germany, Spain, more…), Wendy’s (UK))
  • Code review, bug fixes and testing

Senior Web Developer @ Launchify

May 2019 - March 2020

  • Optimized UI for lead generation and increased user engagement based on advertising campaign traffic
  • Increased user progression by designing, developing, testing and iterating dynamic, mobile-first, responsive components across multiple sites
  • Created multiple sales funnel pages (SPAs) for e-commerce brands to pair with new ad campaigns
  • Converted ideas and content into graphics and mobile-first, responsive websites, single page applications and landing pages
  • Provided frontend and back-end development using PHP, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript and React (Next.js)
  • Developed e-commerce solutions for multiple microsites and properties
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