Matt Hinea
Software Engineer at Data Axle
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Hinea is a software engineer based in Seattle with a decade of experience building web-facing products and collaborative teams. Currently at Data Axle, he has moved through front-end roles into broader software developer responsibilities, bringing practical experience from startups and agency settings like Optimal and Foundry Interactive. He pairs a formal software engineering background from Viking Education with a BA in English from the University of Washington, which informs his clear communication and user-focused approach to design. Known for "building things with people," he emphasizes collaboration and shipping iterative improvements that balance front-end polish with maintainable backend work. Comfortable across the stack, Matt excels at translating ambiguous product goals into concrete engineering outcomes while mentoring peers. Quietly multidisciplinary, he leverages his humanities training to make technical tradeoffs more accessible to nontechnical stakeholders.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BA English Language and Literature/Letters, BA English Language and Literature/Letters at University of WashingtonSoftware Engineering, Software Engineering at Viking Education
English, Thai, Spanish
Stackoverflow
1,912reputation
377kreached
21answers
9questions
rspec
top-5%
Github Skills (137)
game-center10
elasticsearch10
koding10
objectify10
rest10
insertion10
directive10
search-engine10
dice10
rails-api10
poly10
java10
merge10
dane10
wait10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
data-axle/arelastic
May 2022 - Jul 2024
An Elastic Search AST
Contributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 5 PRs in 2 years 2 months
elasticastelasticsearchsearchelastic-search
matthinea/dotfiles
Jan 2019 - Jan 2026
Contributions:55 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years
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