Matt Priour is a Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of professional software experience and a deep specialty in web and geospatial applications, currently shaping developer-facing experiences at Esri. He bridges modern React and WebComponents with legacy stacks like Backbone and jQuery, bringing pragmatic, long-term solutions to mapping, auth, and marketplace front ends. His background spans product engineering, open-source mapping work, and running a geo-centric consulting practice, giving him both hands-on coding and client-facing design chops. Trained originally as a wildlife biologist with an M.S. in Rangeland Ecology & Management, he uniquely combines domain knowledge of ecology and GIS with frontend data-visualization expertise. Colleagues rely on him for mentoring and for turning complex spatial requirements into intuitive, performant interfaces.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Rangeland Ecology & Management, M.S. Rangeland Ecology & Management at Texas A&M University
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