Matt Montgomery
Senior Director Of Software Engineering at Deseret News
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Montgomery is a senior software engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling web platforms for media organizations, now leading engineering for Deseret News after nearly a decade at Deseret Digital Media. He combines hands-on front- and back-end development expertise with editorial sensibilities from years as a managing editor for local sports and news sites, enabling pragmatic product decisions that serve both readers and operations. Known for shipping robust content-management and e-commerce systems, he balances technical stewardship with writing and editorial work, a blend that helps bridge newsroom and engineering priorities. Based in Salt Lake City, he brings a journalism background from Southern Utah University to technical leadership, often translating editorial workflows into reliable web experiences.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Journalism, Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Journalism at Southern Utah University
Github Skills (33)
mls10
data-journalism10
california10
text-editor9
django9
pen8
graphql8
journalism8
react8
python8
wysiwyg8
javascript8
nodejs8
typescript7
etl7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
deseretdigital/embeddable-api
Mar 2016 - Aug 2020
Contributions:7 releases, 17 PRs, 81 pushes in 4 years 5 months
mattmontgomery/formguide
Jun 2021 - Oct 2022
An MLS form guide, because the league stopped providing one
Contributions:1 review, 477 commits, 47 PRs in 1 year 4 months
mlsstoppedleague
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