Matt Wells
Summary
A team-oriented, naturally curious, self-driven full stack developer that has an eye for frontend design and development that can also create a high performant, developer friendly backend. Looking for a full stack/frontend developer role that involves React JS development with a strong relationship with the UI/UX team.
- Co-led the frontend architecture and development of a greenfield product for a startup company (Foro.io).
- Designed and implemented a GraphQL service layer API for communicating with a micro-service backend.
- Automated the creation of an integration test database using Docker.
Education
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte NC
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- Master of Science in Computer Science
- January 2019 - December 2022
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science August 2016 - May 2020
Work Experience
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Senior Developer
October 2021 - PresentLevvel, Charlotte NC → Endava, Charlotte NC
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Co-led the frontend architecture and development of a greenfield
product for a startup company (Foro.io).
- Co-led planning for new features for the frontend development team.
- Provided insight into the design of the backend architecture by developing entity-relationship diagrams and brainstorming solutions for new features.
- Designed and implemented a GraphQL service layer API for communicating with a micro-service backend (Iris Talk Presentation).
- Designed and implemented a set of form components with validation to reduce development effort and ensure consistency throughout the UI (Formidable).
- Planned, coordinated, and lead a bench project for searching and inventoring developer skills within the company.
- Designed, organized, led, and presented the development of a developer efforting tool as part of the Innovation Project competition (DevsPlayingPoker).
- Presented a technical introduction to the WebSockets JavaScript API (Recording).
- Presented on the “Innovation Mindset” to the 2022 early-talent cohort.
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Co-led the frontend architecture and development of a greenfield
product for a startup company (Foro.io).
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Software Engineer
June 2020 - October 2021SentryOne, Charlotte NC → SolarWinds, Charlotte NC
- Effectively participated in various scrum agile efforts including daily standups, sprint planning, product demos and retrospectives on a biweekly basis.
- Consistently improved software quality through unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
- Collaborated with Product Managers and UI/UX to improve product usability.
- Successfully implemented an automated system to build a test database in Docker to be used for integration testing.
- Successfully developed a highly dynamic interface for creating custom data charts.
- Successfully developed a security model under a rigorous timeline including leading UI development.
- Developed and presented a demo application to peers showing how to implement Emotion JS in React.
- Technologies used: React JS, Apollo for GraphQL, Jest, C#, .NET, SQL Server, Azure Dev Ops.
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Software Development Intern
May 2019 - August 2019SentryOne, Charlotte NC
- Successfully worked as an individual contributor as part of a scrum team in the engineering department developing a web database monitoring application.
- Participated in regression testing for production releases.
- Developed and presented work as part of an “innovation sprint” working with a different team outside of the US.
Personal Projects
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Devs Playing Poker
A tool for developers and scrum managers to effort work items as quickly as possible.
- Solid JS (Typescript), Sass, UnoCSS, Deno
- https://devsplayingpoker.com/
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Cooped Up
A web-based version of the popular board game Coup.
- React JS (Typescript), Express, Socket.IO
- https://coopedup.mattwells.dev