Matt Crider
Staff Software Engineer at Vox Media
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolMatt Crider is a Staff Software Engineer with 16 years of full-stack web experience, currently shaping products at Vox Media from his base in Victoria, BC. He specializes in usable interfaces and compelling web experiences, pairing front-end polish with back-end rigor across technologies like React, Node, Rails and traditional LAMP stacks. His background includes leading high-traffic interactive journalism projects at CBC and hands-on ownership building web products for design studios, showing both technical breadth and product-minded delivery. An active open-source contributor to the widely used PKP publishing platform (pkp-lib and OJS), he has improved backend architecture, form validation, and UX-focused features for scholarly publishing. Trained in cognitive science, he brings a user-centered perspective to engineering decisions and a track record of translating complex requirements into practical, maintainable systems.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA Cognitive Science, BA Cognitive Science at Simon Fraser University
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Github Skills (16)
ojs10
debug10
php10
develop10
object-oriented-programming10
form-validation10
codeigniter9
javascript9
css8
html6
web-platform6
journal6
resize6
canvas6
cocoa6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pkp/pkp-lib
Feb 2010 - Sep 2012
The library used by PKP's applications OJS, OMP and OPS, open source software for scholarly publishing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:215 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily worked on implementing and refactoring backend logic, particularly related to object-oriented programming patterns in the ListbuilderHandler class and Form classes. The user also made significant changes to client-side validation, by automatically getting validation parameters from declared FormValidator classes and implemented new features in modals. Furthermore, the user fixed a bug related to forms within the modal framework.
securityapplication-libraryweb-applicationpkp
pkp/ojs
Mar 2010 - Oct 2012
Open Journal Systems is open source software to manage scholarly journals.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:154 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily fixed bugs and improved the OJS (Open Journal Systems) software. They addressed issues related to typos, throbbers (likely visual loading indicators), plugin installation, and a fatal error in the QuickSubmit feature. Additionally, the user added new features such as reading tools block plugins and font sizer capabilities to the software, indicating a focus on improving the user interface and user experience.
journalopen-access
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