Matt Beckett
Senior Frontend Developer at Floatplane
Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Beckett is a Senior Frontend Developer with 14 years of full-stack experience, currently building React/Next.js applications at Floatplane Media. He has led projects at Arck Interactive, run his own development shop, and contributed backend fixes and enhancements to the well-known Elgg open-source social networking engine. Comfortable across the stack—Node/Postgres, PHP/Laravel, Vue, Web Components—he blends pragmatic engineering with product-focused delivery. Based in Nanaimo, Canada, Matt pairs deep implementation experience with an ability to quickly prototype internet-facing systems, drawing on a background in molecular genetics that fuels a methodical, data-minded approach to problem solving.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Molecular Genetics, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Molecular Genetics at University of Alberta
Github Skills (3)
php10
elgg10
mysql9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Elgg/Elgg
Mar 2012 - Feb 2017
A social networking engine in PHP/MySQL
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:139 commits, 51 PRs, 31 pushes in 5 years
Contributions summary:Matt's contributions primarily focused on back-end development within the Elgg social networking engine. They fixed typos in language files, added and improved menu inspection features within the developers plugin, and modified the display of group notifications to improve information clarity for users. The user also addressed issues related to database interactions and access control for group membership and comment display. Furthermore, the user updated code to improve the functionality of RSS feeds.
social-networkelggmysqlphpnetworking
AU-Landing-Project/au_sets
Dec 2012 - Feb 2018
Contributions:4 releases, 57 commits, 1 PR in 5 years 3 months
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