Matt Dekok is a front-end web developer with 12 years of experience building and maintaining web and mobile platforms for the wireless and agricultural tech sectors. Skilled in React, Angular, JavaScript/TypeScript, PHP, Node.js, HTML/CSS and SASS, he splits time between feature development and production support on multi-site, multi-app products and a shared API. He brings security-aware engineering from a degree in Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance and a practical comfort across front-end and API work that teams rely on. A long-tenured contributor on codebases, he’s improved data validation robustness in an open-source schema library by tightening timestamp and date checks—an example of his attention to edge cases that prevent production issues. Based in Huron, South Dakota, he values collaborative teams, mentoring peers, and pragmatic solutions that scale in real-world deployments.
12 years of coding experience
Associate's degree, Computer Software and Media Applications, Associate's degree, Computer Software and Media Applications at Mitchell Technical College
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Dakota State University
The modular and type safe schema library for validating structural data 🤖
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on validating structural data within the valibot repository. They made several updates to improve the accuracy of timestamp and time validations, allowing for "00" in specific time elements. Additionally, the user addressed issues with invalid date handling by modifying the date validation logic in both synchronous and asynchronous contexts. These contributions improve the robustness of the library and ensure data integrity.
Contributions:355 PRs, 445 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 8 months
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Matt Dekok - Front End Web Developer at Agsense LLC