Matt Welson
Senior Frontend Developer at FMG (Farmers Mutual Group)
Invercargill City, Southland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolMatt Welson is a Senior Frontend Developer based in Invercargill, New Zealand, with 11 years of experience building customer-facing web applications and internal tools. He combines deep front-end expertise in React, Gatsby, SCSS and JavaScript with practical backend experience in Node and C#/.NET, having delivered full-stack features and a BFF API for enterprise finance products. At MTF Finance he led front-end development for a new customer site, built a mobile-first originator tooling suite, and migrated CI/CD pipelines while integrating document workflows via SharePoint and Microsoft Graph. Now contributing at FMG and Digital Transformation Ltd, he brings a pragmatic approach to shipping well-tested, performant SPAs and microservice integrations. Though based in a small New Zealand city, he consistently operates at enterprise scale and enjoys solving tricky UI problems—especially those that let him apply CSS finesse alongside robust testing strategies.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) and BA Computer Science Psychology and Philosophy, Bachelor of Science (BSc) and BA Computer Science Psychology and Philosophy at University of OtagoJames Hargest, Invercagill, New Zealand
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (48)
react-typescript9
payload9
nodejs9
mongodb9
graphql8
react8
api8
javascript8
cms7
typescript7
content-management7
dotnetnuke7
nextjs7
jamstack7
cockpit6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mattwelson/trips.mattwelson.com
Aug 2018 - Aug 2021
A travel dairy for my America trip - easy uploads from Netlify CMS, build using GatsbyJS
Contributions:65 PRs, 159 pushes, 61 branches in 3 years
gatsbycmsreactamericanetlify-cms
mattwelson/mattwelson.com
Mar 2018 - May 2020
Blog and website
Contributions:4 PRs, 56 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 2 months
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