Alex Matchneer
Chief Technology Officer at FutureProof Retail
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Matchneer is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Technology Officer at FutureProof Retail with 13 years of experience building full-stack, production-grade systems. He architected a multi-tenant Mobile Checkout platform—covering Ruby on Rails backends and native iOS/Android clients—and has integrated solutions with diverse retail POS systems. An early Ember.js core team member, Alex made notable open-source contributions to Ember.js and related projects, improving templating, routing, and data handling in a framework used by ambitious web apps. His background spans low-latency financial software at Bloomberg to client-focused consulting across New York startups and agencies, reflecting a mix of systems-level rigor and product-minded execution. Known for turning complex edge cases into robust features, he blends hands-on engineering with strategic technical leadership.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Michigan
German, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (26)
url-routing10
javascript10
website-development10
handlebars10
testing10
typescript10
template-engine10
emberjs10
parsing10
front-end-development10
ember10
typescript-types10
html10
typescripts10
text-parsing10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
machty/emblem.js
Jan 2013 - Dec 2015
Emblem.js - Ember-friendly, indented syntax alternative for Handlebars.js
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:235 commits, 10 PRs, 22 pushes in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Alex appears to be making contributions related to the development of a Handlebars-based templating library. Their commits primarily involve modifications to the grammar file (src/grammar.js), indicating efforts to refine the parsing logic of the templating language. The changes focus on implementing new features and fixing bugs.
emberhandlebars
emberjs/router.js
Feb 2013 - Mar 2015
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:141 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Alex primarily worked on refactoring and enhancing the `tildeio/router.js` repository, which appears to be a JavaScript routing library. They refactored code to remove confusion, added support for bubbling events via `return true`, and made model resolution more robust, including addressing issues related to redirects. They implemented features like treating string/number arguments in `transitionTo` as URL parameters and handling slashless URLs. They also fixed a few bugs.
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