Matt Sherman
Senior Advanced Software Engineer at LenelS2
City of Rochester, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Sherman is a Senior Advanced Software Engineer with 11 years of recent experience and a long career building user-focused web, cloud, and desktop applications. He combines hands-on full-stack development—React, TypeScript, PHP, C#, and C++—with proven technical leadership across distributed teams and product-driven organizations like Automattic and Woo. Matt has driven major admin dashboards, analytics, and extension APIs for WooCommerce and contributed front-end improvements to high-profile open-source projects such as WordPress.com Calypso and WooCommerce, including accessibility and cross-browser fixes. He pairs a UX-first mindset with pragmatic engineering: reusable component libraries, REST APIs, and automated testing practices that improve developer efficiency and user experience. Based in Rochester, NY, he also has deep legacy systems experience—architecting service-oriented security applications and desktop software—and a habit of turning nuanced cross-team feedback into tangible product improvements.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (22)
accessibility10
woocommerce10
javascript10
storybook10
wordpress10
user-interface10
ui-design10
redux10
uid10
front-end-development10
react10
ui-components9
testing9
css9
component-kit9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce-admin
Mar 2020 - Mar 2022
(Deprecated) This plugin has been merged to woocommerce/woocommerce
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 140 reviews, 123 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Matt focused on improving the user interface and user experience of the WooCommerce Admin plugin. Their contributions included changing the Google Shopping label to Google Ads and updating the logo, adding List and Link components to Storybook for enhanced UI development, and supporting Internet Explorer 11 compatibility by fixing menu items and including a required module in babel. The user's work also involved modifying the Home Screen and adding a Quick Links card, and also focused on accessibility by setting tabIndex on `SelectControl` wrapper div.
mergedecommercewordpresswoocommercewordpress-plugin
Automattic/wp-calypso
Jan 2016 - Mar 2021
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:34 reviews, 87 commits, 164 PRs in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the user interface of the WordPress.com platform, specifically within the context of the Calypso dashboard. Their commits involved updating help links, modifying migration progress screens, adding and modifying menu items for WooCommerce integration, and addressing the Store deprecation messages. The user also added new Tracks events to monitor user interactions related to WooCommerce and migration features.
apireactwordpressjavascriptes6
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