Matt Wilcox is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building performant web platforms and complex UI integrations, currently leading engineering work at Simplesense. He blends in-house and agency experience with technical leadership roles, having progressed from lead developer to director-level and R&D management positions. Matt focuses on performance, progressive enhancement, and web standards, pairing deep front-end expertise with systems-level thinking gained at LGS Innovations and other firms. Based in Golden, Colorado, he brings a pragmatic, product-oriented approach informed by a BA in Technical Journalism and a background in information technology. Notably, his career reflects both sustained operational ownership—managing large hosting fleets early on—and an appetite for architecting scalable user-facing systems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA Technical Journalism Minor in Information Science & Technology, BA Technical Journalism Minor in Information Science & Technology at Colorado State University
Associates Business (E-commerce), Associates Business (E-commerce) at Trident Technical College
A basic two-legged setup app for Particle products using React Native.
Contributions:9 PRs, 50 pushes, 5 branches in 29 days
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Matt Wilcox - Principal Software Engineer at Simplesense