Matt Newman
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Grainger
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Newman is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience helping enterprises and public-sector clients deliver reliable software and up-skill their engineering teams across finance, government, real estate, and retail. He combines hands-on front-end work—fixing tricky timezone bugs and modernizing linting and build stability in open-source healthcare projects like Bahmni—with consulting leadership honed through a decade at ThoughtWorks and now Grainger. Comfortable across the stack, he focuses on pragmatic improvements that reduce friction in teams and codebases, from test automation to deployment pipelines. Based in Chicago, he pairs a dual background in Software Engineering and Finance from The University of Queensland with a practical researcher’s attention to detail, evident from early research and engineering roles.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering/Bachelor of Commerce, Software Engineering & Finance, GPA (Overall): 6.58, GPA (BE weighted by course level): 6.71, Bachelor of Engineering/Bachelor of Commerce, Software Engineering & Finance, GPA (Overall): 6.58, GPA (BE weighted by course level): 6.71 at The University of Queensland
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
angularjs10
frontend10
zone9
eslint9
uitest9
ui-testing9
timezone9
logging6
gradle6
htaccess6
spring6
intellij-idea6
java6
amazon-route536
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Bahmni/openmrs-module-bahmniapps
Oct 2015 - Nov 2016
Bahmni EMR Frontend code for Clinicians and staff members, written in Angular.JS and React
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Front-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:129 commits, 11 PRs, 25 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on fixing timezone-related issues within the frontend codebase and associated tests. They addressed discrepancies arising from different timezones, particularly IST, by modifying test cases to account for time zone differences. Additionally, the user made configuration changes related to the build process and removed JSHint in favor of ESLint, demonstrating a focus on code quality and build stability. The commits also include linting fixes and the application of ESLint rules to improve code style.
emrmhealthpatient-carehospital-management-systemangular-js
mdjnewman/dotfiles
Apr 2015 - Oct 2023
Contributions:109 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 7 months
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