Matt Vague
Senior Software Engineer at Groupthought
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolMatt Vague is a Senior Software Engineer based in Victoria, Canada with 17 years of experience building delightful, user-focused applications across web and mobile. He blends front-end polish and back-end rigor—working in Ruby, JavaScript, and iOS—to deliver memorable products for clients like MetaLab, VersaPay, Simple, Medeo and startups such as Ollie Order. As a contractor and current senior engineer at Groupthought, he moves fluidly between consulting and long-term engineering work, shipping features that improve collaboration and access to services. Matt is an active open-source contributor, notably improving TypeScript typings and tests in the widely used mathjs library and contributing UI and admin enhancements to ActiveAdmin. Trained in physics, computer science and interactive design, he brings a multidisciplinary lens that helps turn complex requirements into elegant, usable interfaces. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful code, pragmatic architecture, and a designer’s attention to detail.
16 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Interactive Design, Diploma Interactive Design at Capilano UniversityMath Physics Chemistry, Math Physics Chemistry at Concordia UniversityPhysics & Computer Science, Physics & Computer Science at McGill University
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Github Skills (18)
expression-evaluator10
javascript10
testing10
mathematics10
typescript10
rails10
math10
type-definition10
activeadmin10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
ruby-on-rails10
ajax9
user-interface9
front-end-development8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
activeadmin/activeadmin
May 2010 - Jan 2014
The administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:206 commits, 20 comments, 1 issue in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Matt made significant contributions to the Active Admin framework, focusing on improving the user interface and enhancing the administrative features of Ruby on Rails applications. They implemented improvements to the display of tabular data by adding thead and tbody tags. The user also introduced admin comments, including an AJAX form for improved functionality. Further contributions involved renaming and styling the admin notes functionality within the application.
ruby-on-railsrails-applicationsrailsadministrationarbre
josdejong/mathjs
Apr 2022 - Oct 2022
An extensive math library for JavaScript and Node.js
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 40 commits, 21 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the mathjs library by enhancing the TypeScript definitions and adding new tests. Their work includes making import options optional, adding comprehensive type tests for import and toTex functions, and refactoring and expanding tests for various functionalities. They also focused on refining the typing of chained operations and various node types within the expression parser.
mathmatricesbignumbersmathematical-expressionsnode-js
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