Matt Jennings
Engineering Lead at Appetize.io
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Jennings is an Engineering Lead with a decade of experience building mobile and web experiences from Canada, currently leading engineering at Appetize.io after progressing from senior developer roles. He shipped Icebreaker on iOS and Android and pairs hands-on product work with low-level front-end and game-engine contributions in TypeScript, including visibility and scene-management improvements to pixi-react and Excalibur. Comfortable across full-stack concerns, Matt has improved input handling, gamepad support, and rendering behaviors—skills that translate to robust cross-platform app engineering. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he balances leadership with active open-source involvement and a background in object-oriented software development.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Object Oriented Software Development, Object Oriented Software Development at Southern Alberta Institute of TechnologyBriercrest College and Seminary
English
Github Skills (13)
pix10
typescript10
javascript10
html5-canvas10
typescripts10
pixijs10
game-development10
game-engine10
react10
typescript-types10
testing10
renderer9
gamepad9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
excaliburjs/Excalibur
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
🎮 Your friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web 🗡️
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 7 commits, 25 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the excaliburjs game engine, focusing on enhancing the scene management and input handling functionalities. They implemented features to pass data between scenes during transitions, improved event handling for visibility changes, and added support for gamepad button states. In addition, the user added a clone method for SpriteSheets, which helps in game development. This demonstrates a proficiency in game engine development using TypeScript.
html5-gamegamegamesgamedevjavascript
pixijs/pixi-react
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Write PIXI apps using React declarative style
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Matt focused on implementing and testing features related to visibility management within the `pixi-react` library. They implemented `hideInstance` and `unhideInstance` methods, modifying the code to utilize the `visible` property for controlling element visibility. They subsequently refined the implementation to handle the visibility property correctly and added tests for suspense functionality, ensuring proper rendering behavior during asynchronous operations.
reactreact-fiberjavascriptdeclarativerenderer
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