Matt Hampel
Staff Engineer at Regrid
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Hampel is a Staff Engineer with 14 years’ experience building collaborative web technologies for the civic and nonprofit sectors, currently shaping data infrastructure at Regrid. Trained in interdisciplinary social sciences with coursework in computer science, law, sociology, and information, he blends technical depth in Rails, Django, Node, React, Postgres/PostGIS and geodata microreportage with a systems-level sense of community and civic information flows. He has moved between hands-on roles—co-founding LocalData, serving as Regrid’s Chief Data Officer and Senior Software Architect—and sustained civic engagement as a LocalWiki board member. Known for iterative, pragmatic delivery, he focuses on efficient implementations that make geospatial civic data accessible and actionable. Colleagues cite his knack for turning messy local knowledge into structured, reusable tools and communities.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at University of Michigan Residential College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (131)
slack-bot10
mapbox-gl10
node-postgres10
geodata10
react-native-module10
camera10
geocoding10
geofencing10
postico10
geofence10
libpq10
bar-code10
dbase9
clozure-cl9
api9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
thecarebot/carebot-tracker
Feb 2016 - Apr 2016
carebot-tracker.js — Carebot's tracking component for Google Analytics events
Contributions:54 commits, 29 PRs, 31 pushes in 2 months
google-analytics
hampelm/bus-map
Dec 2013 - Jul 2017
Contributions:50 commits, 4 PRs, 17 pushes in 3 years 7 months
busesmap
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