Matt Stow
Frontend Developer at Thinkmill
Newcastle-Maitland, New South Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarMatt Stow is a user-experience focused Frontend Developer with 14 years of experience building accessible, human-centred web interfaces from Newcastle-Maitland. He specialises in pragmatic, cross-browser frontend engineering and has a track record of improving compatibility and performance—most notably enhancing a widely used jQuery responsive image maps plugin to support older jQuery versions and fix WebKit rendering issues. Passionate about universal access, he balances clean UI design with robust implementation details that reduce surprises across devices and browsers. Comfortable working in legacy and modern stacks, he thrives on untangling browser quirks and shipping maintainable code. Matt’s contributions show a hands-on, detail-oriented approach to open source that complements his product-minded engineering.
14 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
responsive-design10
javascript10
react-native10
front-end-development10
jquery10
react9
typescript9
safari6
html6
css6
svg6
webkit6
dropdown-menu6
cordova6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
stowball/jQuery-rwdImageMaps
Apr 2012 - Oct 2016
Responsive Image Maps jQuery Plugin
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to enhancing the functionality and compatibility of the jQuery-based responsive image map plugin. They added support for older versions of jQuery, addressed a WebKit-specific rendering issue, and optimized the plugin's performance. The user's commits focused on ensuring the plugin works correctly across different browsers and versions, particularly by adjusting how image dimensions are handled and optimizing the code. This involved modifications to both the minified and unminified versions of the JavaScript code.
imagejqueryresponsive-imagesjquery-pluginresponsive-image
stowball/webpack-svg-icon-system
Feb 2017 - Apr 2019
A loader and plugin for webpack that converts all your SVGs into symbols and merges them into a SVG sprite.
Contributions:13 commits, 14 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 2 months
webpack-pluginwebpack-loadersymbolsspritesvg
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