Mat Harden
User Experience Engineer at Google
Dacorum, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorMat Harden is a User Experience Engineer with over a decade of front-end-focused experience building accessible, high-performance web interfaces for large organisations, including Google and the UK Ministry of Justice. He combines expert HTML/CSS/JavaScript skills with pragmatic server-side experience (Ruby, PHP, Python) and a strong grounding in web standards, optimisation and cross-browser compatibility. Mat has led teams and projects, shipping responsive and mobile-first designs while championing accessibility and usability testing. He contributes front-end improvements to well-known open-source efforts like AMP Start, where he refined UI components and theming for faster, cleaner article templates. Colleagues rely on his keen eye for detail and his ability to translate design and performance goals into robust, maintainable UI code. Based in Dacorum, England, he pairs steady delivery in enterprise contexts with hands-on prototyping and teaching experience.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
786reputation
184kreached
13answers
4questions
modal-dialog
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mobile-safari
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Github Skills (16)
html10
css10
responsive-design10
ui-design10
google-amp10
ampl10
mobile-safari9
modal-dialog9
javascript9
ux-design9
github7
css-float6
material-ui6
google-chrome6
centering6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ampproject/ampstart
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
AMP Start source code and templates .
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 10 PRs, 11 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Mat focused on developing and refining UI/UX components for AMP Start templates. Their work primarily involved creating and modifying CSS for various themes, adjusting HTML templates to integrate components like Instagram, and improving the overall layout and visual presentation. The user also made iterative improvements to the theme and styling of the article pages.
templateamp
matharden/matharden.co.uk
Mar 2016 - Jan 2025
Contributions:14 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years 11 months
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