Matt Baxter
Director Of Product Management at Bestow Life Insurance
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Baxter is a product and engineering leader with 15 years of experience blending UX design, front-end craftsmanship, and backend development to deliver enterprise SaaS and consumer-facing products. As Director of Product Management at Bestow he led the launch and scaling of their enterprise policy administration platform, translating customer insights into measurable business outcomes. His early career in UX and front-end development gives him a pragmatic design sensibility that he pairs with hands-on technical experience—he’s an active open-source contributor to notable projects in the Minecraft ecosystem (Bukkit, BungeeCord) and game-data tooling, where he’s fixed core bugs, implemented APIs, and improved server logic. Comfortable driving cross-functional teams, he repeatedly moves products from prototypes to production through user research, testing, and roadmap discipline. Based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area and grounded in a BS in Computer Engineering, he’s as likely to sketch interaction flows as he is to reach into code to unblock delivery. Outside work he codes for fun (and cats make frequent cameo appearances in his GitHub bio).
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas
Github Skills (28)
minecraft10
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minecraft-forge10
api-design10
data-set10
plugin-development10
configuration-management10
ota10
dot10
java10
data-model10
plugin10
javas10
mechanics10
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
drtshock/Factions
Dec 2020 - Dec 2022
Premium Factions for Premium People.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 197 commits, 26 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on modifying the back-end logic of the "factions" premium Minecraft server plugin. Their contributions included adding configuration options for land raid control, improving handling of furnace interactions, addressing potential null faction scenarios, and fixing issues related to chunk visibility and explosion damage. Additionally, they implemented features like vampirism mechanics and added new configurations for preventing kicking in enemy territory.
pocketminefactionsgameplayplugin
Bukkit/Bukkit
Jul 2012 - Mar 2014
The Minecraft Mod API
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 13 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on fixing bugs and adding new features to the Bukkit project. They addressed null pointer exceptions by adding null checks and throwing IllegalArgumentExceptions in the `MetadataStoreBase` and `MetadataStore` interfaces. They also implemented the Scoreboard API and Command, including adding various functionalities like adding, removing, and setting displays for scoreboard objectives and managing player scores. Furthermore, the user added banning functionality including reasons and kick functionality.
apiminecraftmod-apimodminecraft-mod
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