04 · About
About
Hey — I’m Matt. I’m a software engineer, and I got here in a slightly roundabout way: I started out in testing, and it permanently changed how I build things. I don’t just want to ship a feature — I want to actually know it works, and keeps working.
Frontend and full-stack are where I’m most at home, but honestly I’ll dig in anywhere from the database to the last pixel. I studied Computer Science and Math at Youngstown State, then did a full-stack bootcamp once I realized I wanted to build real products, not just reason about them on paper.
After school I spent a year as an SDET embedded in Meta’s engineering org (through Solvd), writing end-to-end tests for Facebook and Instagram across web and mobile. Working at that scale taught me a ton about what “correct” actually costs. From there I moved into product engineering at Drund — a vendor whose platform powers the online communities behind several major sports and athletics organizations. I owned the admin side of it: React, Next.js, TypeScript, a big design-system migration, and a whole lot of shipping.
These days I spend a lot of my own time on side projects — most of them are in my work. Building things end to end, exactly the way I want, is how I keep getting better.
What I’m looking for is pretty simple: a team that treats correctness as a feature and gives an engineer real room to own something. Frontend, full-stack, or SDET — I’m a generalist, and I like it that way.
OUTSIDE OF WORK
My faith is a big part of my life — I’m active in my church, including a missions trip to El Salvador where I got to spend time with local kids and schools.
Closer to home, I share a desk with a cat who is firmly convinced my headset is his seat. He’s usually somewhere in the frame when I’m building.
The fastest way to reach me is email. My résumé is structured and printable, and my GitHub has the code behind everything here.