Matt Severyn
Senior Frontend Engineer at Skylight
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Severyn is a Senior Frontend Engineer based in Raleigh with six years of hands-on experience building performant, tested, and maintainable JavaScript applications using React, Node, TypeScript, and modern state and data libraries. He’s delivered measurable performance and tech-debt reductions across legacy and greenfield codebases—from parsing large unmaintained React apps to architecting full-stack systems and internal tools—while championing type safety with Zod and pragmatic use of AI-assisted developer workflows. A seasoned mentor and instructor, Matt has led and grown engineering teams, taught advanced topics like Docker and scalable system design, and migrated complex state systems to more modular architectures. He combines a communicator’s empathy (honed over a decade in diverse roles including emergency dispatch and EMT work) with a developer’s curiosity, often self-onboarding unfamiliar systems and tooling to deliver business-impacting solutions quickly.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
MFA, MFA at University of HoustonBA, BA at Greensboro College
Github Skills (7)
debugging8
time-travel7
apollo7
apollo-client6
reaction5
graphql5
object-recognition4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
oslabs-beta/apollo-epoch
Jul 2020 - Oct 2020
A time travel debugging solution for Apollo Client 3.0
Contributions:1 review, 87 commits, 29 PRs in 2 months
travelapollo-client-3time-traveldebugginggraphql
mtseveryn/Healthyhood
Jun 2020 - Aug 2023
Contributions:15 pushes, 14 branches in 3 years 2 months
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