Matt Pardee
Director Of Engineering at Trunk Tools
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Pardee is a results-driven engineering leader with 15+ years of hands-on software and team-building experience, now serving as Director of Engineering in the New York City area. He has progressed from JavaScript-focused roles and developer evangelism at Cloud9 and StrongLoop to executive engineering leadership at startups and mission-driven platforms like Change.org and Leverage. Comfortable spanning front-end theming work (contributions to the popular Ace editor) to back-end server logic (enhancements to the jsDAV WebDAV library), he blends product-minded UX sensitivity with robust API and infrastructure experience. Matt has a track record of founding and scaling engineering teams, launching integrations platforms, and shipping reliable systems at pace. He’s known for crafting great teams and great UX—translating deep technical contributions into polished user-facing outcomes. A CSU Chico alumnus, he pairs long-form engineering craftsmanship with a pragmatic, cross-functional leadership style.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Internet Communications Management Information Systems, Internet Communications Management Information Systems at California State University, Chico
Github Skills (10)
css10
regular-expression10
javascript10
webdav10
nodejs9
api8
apidoc8
ui-design8
font-face6
font-manager6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ajaxorg/ace
Jan 2011 - Nov 2012
Ace (Ajax.org Cloud9 Editor)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:31 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the theming aspects of the Ace editor. They updated existing themes by adding user styles and modifying color schemes within the theme files. Additional contributions include adding new fonts and modifying editor.css file. Minor edits were made to the project's documentation and example files.
cloud9
mikedeboer/jsDAV
May 2011 - May 2011
jsDAV allows you to easily add WebDAV support to a NodeJS application. jsDAV is meant to cover the entire standard, and attempts to allow integration using an easy to understand API.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 19 days
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on improving the `jsDAV` WebDAV server library by fixing bugs and implementing enhancements related to the code search functionality. Their contributions involved modifying regular expression handling, refining search logic, and adding elements to the XML response for query details. Additionally, the user integrated the `filelist` plugin and addressed merge conflicts to maintain the project's stability and functionality. These changes demonstrate a focus on server-side logic and API implementation.
nodejs-applicationwebdav
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