Matthew Guy

Front-End Software Engineer

http://mattguy.me me@mattguy.me 3218060538

Myself

I'm passionate about the product and the process.
The product being simple, elegant, and beneficial to users' lives. The process being respectful, trusting, and human. I bring myself to work--I'm funny, curious, principled, easy-going, results-driven, courageous, humble, open-minded, practical, loving, and imperfect. See what my colleagues are saying about me.

Skills

JavaScript • 92nd percentile
React & Redux • 95th percentile
CSS & SASS
A/B Testing
UX Engineering

Employment

Front-End Engineer @ The Black Tux

2016 - 2018

Transitioned jQuery/Django template website to a fully API-driven React (JavaScript) Single Page Application.
Developed major features, such as our redesigned customer fitting experience. This feature resulted in an increase in step conversion by 24% and checkout conversion by 4%.
Evaluated and implemented major architectural changes, such as Model-View-Controller with Redux Sagas to express side-effects, which reversed technical debt and established clear, predictable, and powerful patterns, thereby increasing short and long-term team velocity--references available upon request.
Consistently improved site performance (reduced page load speed by 30%) and developer workflows (enabled Hot Module Reloading, stopped webpack from jettisoning when switching branches, reduced CI build time by 50%, etc.).
Mentored peers through code reviews and informal 1:1s to improve their technical comprehension.

Head of Development @ Winner Websites

2014 - 2016

Implemented over 20 professional, responsive WordPress websites with custom dashboards maintainable by clients.
Built the North American International Auto Show website, winner of the 2016 WebAward for Best Events Website.
A portfolio of my work from this period is viewable at portfolio.mattguy.me.

Translator @ Korea Techno Agency (KTA)

2013

Translated and proofread translations of Japanese patent documents--all work was Japanese to English.

Education

Penn State University

2007 -2012

BS. Information Sciences & Technology

BA. Japanese Language

Minor. Philosophy

GPA 3.85

Nanzan University (南山大学)

2010 - 2011

Nagoya, Japan.

Areas of Study. Japanese Language, Business Culture, Writing, and Translation

研究分野日本語、企業風土、読み書き、翻訳

HTML, XHTML, HMTL5, CSS, CSS3, JS, JavaScript, ES5, ES6, transform, animation, keyframe, mixin, SASS, SCSS, Less, template, templating, HAML, YAML, Handlebars, Handlebars.js, Mustache, Mustache.js, Flex, Builder, ActionScript, MXML, XML, JSON, CSV, Responsive, Web, Website, Design, Designer, Development, Developer, Programming, Programmer, UX, UI, UX/UI, WordPress, Plugin, Theme, CMS, Drupal, Adobe, Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, Pixelmator, PHP, Laravel, Python, Django, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Database, Normalization, Ember, Ember.js, Angular, Angular.js, React, React.js, Node, Node.js, Java, Visual Basic, VB, .NET, Maven, Ant, Archiva, CVS, Subversion, Git, Mercurial, Project, Lead, Manager, Management, Object Oriented Programming, OOP, Model View Controller, MVC, Test Driven Development, TDD, Windows, PC, Linux, Apple, Mac, OS X, OSX, Hi, Mom! \(^O^).