Matt Zabriskie
Senior Software Engineer at Trace Events
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Zabriskie is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building robust front-end and back-end systems, currently based in Salt Lake City and working at Apple. He co-founded Trace Events and has a strong track record modernizing web UIs and HTTP tooling—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like React and Axios where he improved accessibility, styling validation, and Node.js compatibility. His work spans rich client features (PDF annotation UIs, draggable layouts, accessible modals and tabs) and testing/mocking infrastructure (moxios), showing fluency across the full stack. Matt combines practical product-level engineering with contributions that improve developer ergonomics and cross-environment reliability. He trained in computer science at Utah Valley University and brings entrepreneurial instincts from early startup roles into large-scale engineering at Apple. An understated strength is his pattern of shipping focused fixes that prevent hard-to-find bugs (style edge cases, environment build issues), which boosts long-term maintainability.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Utah Valley University
Stackoverflow
542reputation
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Github Skills (34)
accessibility10
unit-testing10
javascript10
testing10
css10
user-interface10
modals10
ui-design10
axios10
uid10
modal-dialog10
svg10
front-end-development10
mocking10
html10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mzabriskie/react-example
Sep 2014 - Aug 2016
Simple React example app
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 2 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on building and maintaining the front-end components of a React application. Their contributions include creating user profile and repository list views, implementing a filter for repositories, and integrating a home page with navigation. The commits demonstrate experience in handling API calls using Axios to retrieve user data and repositories, and integrating external libraries like react-tooltip and react-router for enhanced functionality and navigation. These changes involved updating the UI, refactoring code for better readability, and adopting ES6 features.
react
instructure/pdf-annotate.js
Aug 2015 - Aug 2016
Annotation layer for pdf.js (no longer maintained)
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:283 commits, 239 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
Contributions summary:Matt's commits primarily focused on developing the UI for a PDF annotation layer using JavaScript. The commits introduced new annotation types such as highlight, area, and strikeout, along with the rendering logic for these elements. The user implemented methods to scale annotations, manage text layers, and create and edit annotations by the user, with the addition of UI events for handling interactions such as click and mouseover.
pdfjs
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