Matt Pass
Senior Fullstack Dev at Matt Pass Ltd
Tetbury, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatt Pass is a senior full-stack developer with 14 years of professional experience and a 26-year web development background, specializing in JavaScript-centric applications, Node, React and serverless AWS architectures. He combines hands-on development, devops and UI/UX craft to deliver user-focused cloud solutions, and brings security-first thinking as a GPEN-certified pen tester and GIAC advisory board member. As a contractor and founder of Matt Pass Ltd he comfortably leads teams or ships end-to-end projects solo, having built large-scale educational cybersecurity products used by hundreds of thousands and worked with SANS, GCHQ and multiple governments. An active open-source contributor, he improved browser-focused libraries like github.js and created the popular ICEcoder in-browser editor, demonstrating both frontend theming and API-level enhancements. Based in Tetbury, England, he pairs entrepreneurial experience with a taste for elegant, secure systems and a continual appetite to learn better approaches.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Higher National Diploma Computer Graphics, Higher National Diploma Computer Graphics at City of Bristol College
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Github Skills (24)
api-rest10
javascript10
xmlhttprequest10
theming10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
css10
editor10
php10
api10
code-editor10
rest-api10
codemirror10
async9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
icecoder/ICEcoder
Jan 2012 - Jun 2022
Browser code editor awesomeness
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 2880 commits, 42 PRs in 10 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Matt contributed to the development of the ICEcoder browser-based code editor, implementing and improving the user interface and adding new features. The commits show the user adding and enhancing functionality such as a new FTP sites manager and adding code for handling various file types. Their work demonstrates a focus on integrating new services and capabilities to expand ICEcoder's usability.
browserjavascriptcode-browsereditorcode-editor
github-tools/github
Jul 2012 - Oct 2013
A higher-level wrapper around the Github API. Intended for the browser.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 7 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Matt focused on enhancing the functionality of the Github.js library, particularly in the area of network requests and API interactions. Key contributions include replacing jQuery AJAX with native XMLHttpRequest for improved efficiency and reduced dependencies. They added features for handling headers, content types, and sync/async requests. Furthermore, the user added support for creating and deleting repositories, as well as listing tags, pulls, and comparisons.
apibrowserjavascriptnodejstypescript
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