Matt Huggins
Staff Software Engineer at Prelude
Leander, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Huggins is a Staff Software Engineer with 15+ years of hands-on experience building scalable web and security-focused user experiences, now helping CISOs answer "am I protected?" at Prelude. He blends front-end expertise in TypeScript and React with deep back-end Ruby on Rails experience, having architected cross-application services and led teams delivering consistent UX across large product suites. A pragmatic technical leader, he has led teams of eight and driven reusable architectures, scope definition, and process improvements at Tanium and Upland Kapost. An active open-source contributor, Matt has improved well-known Ruby projects like paper_trail and formtastic and contributed full‑stack enhancements to blockchain tooling such as neon-js. He has a track record of both fixing subtle data and association bugs and improving developer ergonomics—often preventing unnecessary database fetches or adding clearer validation and test coverage. Based in Leander, Texas, he pairs a masters-level business perspective with broad language fluency from Java and C# to modern JS and Rails.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Computer and Information Sciences, Bachelors Computer and Information Sciences at University of DelawareMasters Business, Masters Business at Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics at University of Delaware
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Github Skills (54)
jquery-plugin10
ruby-rails10
javascript10
jquery10
apidoc10
testing10
rspec10
audit10
timer10
formtastic10
user-interface10
rails10
ruby10
axios10
neo4j10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
mhuggins/jquery-countTo
Apr 2012 - Apr 2017
A jQuery plugin that will count up (or down) to a target number at a specified speed.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 5 PRs, 7 pushes in 5 years
Contributions summary:Matt primarily worked on enhancing the functionality and usability of the jQuery countTo plugin. They implemented features like DOM data attribute support and custom formatting options. Additionally, the user refactored code, added examples to demonstrate functionality, and added features like restart buttons. Finally, they added basic tests for the plugin.
count-upspeedjqueryjavascriptjquery-plugin
CityOfZion/neon-wallet
Dec 2017 - May 2018
Light wallet for the NEO blockchain
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 3 reviews, 292 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on enhancing the Neon Wallet's user interface. Their work involved implementing and testing React components, specifically for input fields and address book management. They also fixed the formatting for the claim button, and made changes to the Token Sale screens. These changes involved updating select input functionality and creating a confirmation screen.
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