Matt Johnson is a pragmatic software developer with roughly a decade of professional experience and a broader 13+ year history of building and operating production systems at scale. Based in Clifton Park, NY, he currently develops software at Packet Tide, maintaining responsibility for reliable, maintainable back-end services. An active open-source contributor, he has improved the ExpressionEngine CMS by modernizing PHP compatibility, aligning code to PSR-12, and refining its migration and documentation links—work that helps a widely used platform stay healthy. He pairs hands-on maintenance and refactoring skills with a focus on practical standards compliance, making legacy systems easier to evolve and support.
ExpressionEngine is a flexible, feature-rich, free open-source content management platform that empowers hundreds of thousands of individuals and organizations around the world to easily manage their web site.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:546 reviews, 752 commits, 461 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on updating and maintaining the ExpressionEngine CMS. Their work involved modifying and enhancing the control panel's functionality, specifically by updating links to documentation and correcting references to documentation files. They also addressed potential issues in the codebase by fixing PHP compatibility, ensuring that the code complies with PSR-12 standards, and working with the migration system for the core application.
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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Matt Johnson - Software Developer at Packet Tide, LLC