Matt Lee
Staff Design Engineer at Shopify
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Lee is a Staff Design Engineer based in Asheville with a decade of experience turning design concepts into production-quality front-end code and marketing experiences. He blends creative direction and hands-on development—having led release teams, built marketing design systems at GitHub, and shipped high-profile editorial projects like The ReadME Project and the State of the Octoverse. At Shopify he focuses on bridging product goals and measurable outcomes, using analytics and experiments to iterate designs that drive engagement and growth. Comfortable leading cross-functional teams and running client-facing strategy workshops, he thrives on improving team productivity and deployment velocity. A specialized generalist with a formal background in visual communication design, he often engineers internal tools and styleguides that make design work more scalable and repeatable.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science/Master of Arts (B.S./M.A.), Visual Communication Design, Bachelor of Science/Master of Arts (B.S./M.A.), Visual Communication Design at Kent State University
Github Skills (23)
critical-css10
wordpress10
gulp10
gulp-plugin10
metalsmith10
sanity-io10
tailwindcss10
nunjucks10
alpinejs10
boilerplate10
browsersync10
sanity10
eleventy9
css9
sass9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bymattlee/bymattlee-wp-starter-theme
Jun 2016 - Dec 2022
A starter boilerplate WordPress theme powered by Gulp, Tailwind CSS, rollup.js, Alpine.js and Highway.
Contributions:196 commits, 14 PRs, 143 pushes in 6 years 7 months
browsersynctailwindcsshighwaygulptailwind
bymattlee/bymattlee-tumblr-starter-theme
Sep 2016 - Aug 2019
Contributions:86 commits, 54 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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