Matt Obert
Software Engineering Senior Advisor at Express Scripts
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Obert is a creative technologist and seasoned Drupal specialist with nearly a decade of focused software experience and over twenty years building and hosting web platforms across corporate and non-profit sectors. Currently a Software Engineering Senior Advisor at Express Scripts, he combines hands-on full‑stack development, DevOps, and accessibility expertise—evident in contributions that improved responsiveness and ARIA/form labeling for open-source Jekyll themes. He has led complex Drupal 8/9 rebuilds and CI/CD migrations for federal and enterprise clients, integrating Search API Solr, SAML, and bespoke Atlassian API tooling while standardizing local development with DDEV and Lando. A long-time community contributor and organizer in Providence (including leadership at Providence Community Radio and AS220), Matt brings a designer’s sensibility to engineering tradeoffs and a pragmatic focus on usability, ops resilience, and inclusive web experiences.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
LaunchCode's CS50x Rhode Island, LaunchCode's CS50x Rhode Island at University of Rhode IslandFull Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCampCommunity College of Rhode Island
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Github Skills (7)
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css10
jekyll10
jekyll-theme10
flexbox9
javascript8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jeromelachaud/freelancer-theme
May 2019 - May 2020
Jekyll theme based on Freelancer Start Bootstrap theme
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer & Accessibility Specialist
Front-end Developer & Accessibility SpecialistContributions:4 PRs, 1 comment in 11 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on improving the accessibility and responsiveness of the Jekyll theme. Their contributions include fixing form label associations for better accessibility, addressing missing label warnings identified by a testing plugin. They also updated the portfolio grid layout using flexbox to make it more responsive and adaptable to different screen sizes. Furthermore, the user made general improvements to make the website more usable.
bootstrapbootstrap-themejekyll-themejekyll
hotwebmatter/buildtools-demo
Apr 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:196 PRs, 4 pushes, 196 branches in 1 year 3 months
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