Matt Rider
Full Stack Developer at Datenfreunde
Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Rider is a Full Stack Developer based in Leipzig, Germany, with nine years of experience building and maintaining web applications across news, nonprofit, and civic-tech organizations. He has shipped full-stack features at companies like Krautreporter and tactile.news and recently joined Datenfreunde, bringing a pragmatic mix of front-end polish and backend maintenance. Matt contributes to open-source projects such as AgileVentures/WebsiteOne, where he improved dependency hygiene, added video-embedding features with tests, and made inclusive language updates—signals of attention to long-term project health and user experience. Trained via freeCodeCamp and Udemy, he combines formal self-directed learning with hands-on product work and a proven focus on maintainability and accessibility.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCampUdemy Academy
Github Skills (6)
ruby10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
testing10
github9
git8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
AgileVentures/WebsiteOne
Jul 2018 - Jun 2019
A website for Agile Ventures
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 commits, 132 PRs, 147 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Matt removed references to an outdated sponsoring company, reflecting a focus on project maintenance and dependency management. They also updated project dependencies. Additionally, the user changed pronouns to gender neutral across multiple files. They worked on the embedding of a video player feature, writing tests and refactoring video-related partials.
herokuventurescodeclimatesemaphore-cicapybara
mattwr18/WebsiteOne
Jun 2018 - Jan 2019
A website for Agile Ventures
Contributions:1 PR, 82 pushes, 37 branches in 7 months
agileventuresruby
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