Matt Smith
Senior Software Engineer at ApartmentIQ
City of Rochester, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Smith is a senior software engineer and startup founder with 17 years of hands-on experience designing and shipping user-focused, production-ready web applications. Based in Rochester, NY, he blends UX-first product design with deep architecture skills—having led end-to-end development of SaaS platforms that include AI-driven content generation, embeddable widgets, and scalable APIs. He’s comfortable across stacks (React/Next.js, Node, Rails, PostgreSQL) and has practical ops experience from server configuration to CI, backups, and third-party integrations. An early open-source contributor to the widely used Backbone.js project, he has improved testing and documentation for core front-end tooling. Notably, he repeatedly oscillates between leading teams and doing the hands-on work himself, which keeps his technical decisions grounded in real user workflows.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science at Roberts Wesleyan University
English
Github Skills (6)
unit-testing10
javascript10
backbone10
backbonejs10
testing10
documentation7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jashkenas/backbone
Mar 2011 - Sep 2011
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on improving the testing and documentation of the Backbone.js library. They addressed issues related to model instantiation and ID handling, ensuring accurate behavior for positive and negative IDs. Their work involved refining existing tests, splitting tests for clarity, and adding helper methods to improve the test suite's organization. Furthermore, they corrected minor errors in the documentation.
javascripteventscollectionsbackbone
twobitfool/stifle
Jan 2018 - Jul 2021
A very simple way to throttle a function (in Javascript)
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 3 years 5 months
browserslistjavascriptthrottlejs
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