Matt Burnett
Senior Developer Founder at Civic Tech DC
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Burnett is an open source web developer with a decade of experience who bridges practical production work and creative media roots, currently contributing to Activist.org from Berlin. He has shipped web and open-source projects across Europe and the U.S., with roles ranging from full-stack training at Codecademy to developer and project lead positions at startups and co-ops. Comfortable across front-end and back-end stacks, his career traces back to early Web 1.0-era development and includes senior ColdFusion and web applications work. Matt's background in electronic music and audio/video production gives him a distinctive creative-technical perspective that informs UX and tooling decisions. He favors pragmatic improvements—“making things better”—and thrives in distributed, mission-driven teams. Based in Washington, D.C., he combines long-form technical experience with a habit of iterative craftsmanship rather than one-off hacks.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Electronic Music, Bachelor's Electronic Music at Virginia Commonwealth University
German, English
Stackoverflow
114reputation
12kreached
6answers
13questions
Github Skills (30)
javascript10
python10
django10
open-source10
typescript10
nuxt10
tailwindcss10
vue10
webapp10
frontend10
backend10
rule8
nodejs7
api7
aws-apigateway6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
resonatecoop/api
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
The one Resonate API to rule them all
Contributions:38 reviews, 61 commits, 44 PRs in 3 months
apirulejavascriptnodejsresonate
mattburnett-repo/portfolio-website
Oct 2021 - Jul 2026
HTML / CSS / JS portfolio website
Contributions:95 PRs, 152 pushes, 97 branches in 4 years 9 months
html-css-javascriptsassseo
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