Matt Price
Director, Product And Knowledge Management at University of Toronto Scarborough
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMatt Price is a Director of Product and Knowledge Management who blends 14+ years of teaching and technical practice to help nonprofits and social-sector organizations turn data into actionable impact. He leads product and data commons efforts at GivingTuesday while advising on data and technology strategy at DARO, bringing a scholar’s attention to governance, social justice, and environmental outcomes. A longtime educator in digital humanities and experiential learning, he has taught across the University of Toronto and designed technology curricula for places from elementary classrooms to remote Himalayan villages. Matt pairs hands-on engineering (full-stack contributions to Electron-based and Org-mode tooling) with knowledge-management leadership, making him equally at home refactoring backend exporters as designing user-facing GUIs. His academic background (PhD in History and Philosophy of Science from Stanford) informs a distinctive focus on how technologies shape social and cultural change. Outside work he channels pedagogy into practical community projects—founding computer-recycling education initiatives and getting students outdoors in surprising settings.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, History and Philosophy of Science, PhD, History and Philosophy of Science at Stanford University
English, German, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
markdown10
hugo10
javascript10
reveal-js10
electron10
org-mode10
css10
exporter10
emacs-lisp10
markdown-it10
html10
elisp10
toml9
sass9
yaml9
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
DigitalHistory/history-please
Dec 2015 - Sep 2021
A fork of pasta-please that returns Canadian history instead of recipes!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:190 commits, 154 PRs, 136 pushes in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Matt transformed the `pasta-please` project into `history-please`, adding features to display Canadian history instead of recipes. They refactored the main application logic to use the new project name and file structure. The user implemented a GUI and integrated it with the Electron application, allowing for next/previous navigation through a shuffled list of history content. They also added styling with sass and css.
returnspastarecipescanadian
yjwen/org-reveal
Jul 2015 - Dec 2016
Exports Org-mode contents to Reveal.js HTML presentation.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 5 PRs, 17 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Matt focused on enhancing the `org-reveal` repository, a tool for converting Org-mode content to Reveal.js presentations. Their primary contributions involved implementing features related to external plugins, including support for Klipse, an in-browser code editing and evaluation tool. They modified the codebase to integrate Klipse and added custom settings, while also refactoring existing code to directly generate iframe elements for improved functionality.
presentationexportsorg-modeemacshtml-presentation
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