Matt Trask
Senior Software Engineer at Gymdesk
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Trask is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building web and SaaS products, currently driving engineering at Gymdesk after leadership and senior roles at Ovia Health, Primitive, and MoreCommerce. A self-taught developer with a BASc in Geological/Geophysical Engineering, he blends pragmatic full‑stack development (notably front-end work on the apisyouwonthate/openapi.tools project) with product-focused technical leadership that has delivered features across consumer and enterprise apps. He has led teams through major overhauls—like Ovia’s multi-app enterprise rewrite—and architected microservice strategies for client platforms in property management and e-commerce. Passionate about making coding more efficient, he mentors engineers, contributes to open source, and brings an eye for UX and design improvements informed by real customer work. Based in Nashville, he balances technical depth with a collaborative, user-centered approach and a quirky personal touch (dinosaurs, Star Wars, and bicycles).
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Geological/Geophysical Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Geological/Geophysical Engineering at University of Waterloo
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
apisyouwonthate/openapi.tools
Dec 2017 - Apr 2022
A collection of Editors, Linters, Parsers, Code Generators, Documentation, Testing
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 172 commits, 125 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily worked on front-end development, contributing to the user interface and structure of the OpenAPI Tools project. Their contributions included the initial setup of the index.html file, implementing a navigation bar, adding and styling content, and making significant updates to the design. The user also modified the HTML and CSS to improve readability and the overall look of the website, utilizing Tailwind CSS. Further enhancements included improvements to the table display and content organization.
linterlintersredocparsersopenapi-specification
rocketpastsix/transparentcoffee
May 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 55 PRs, 153 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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