Matthew Beale
Director Of Engineering at Addepar
Town of Mamaroneck, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarMatthew Beale is a Director of Engineering at Addepar with 16 years of experience building front-end platforms and leading engineering teams from product to production. Based near NYC, he combines hands-on expertise in Ember.js and related web tooling with strategic leadership—recently guiding Addepar’s frontend product platform at scale. An active open-source maintainer since 2000, Matt has contributed to high-profile projects like Ember.js, Ghost, Glimmer VM and numerous Ember ecosystem libraries, improving rendering, performance, and developer tooling. His background spans founding a web studio, consulting, and ship‑ready roles at companies like Harvest, giving him both entrepreneurial grit and production discipline. Beyond code, he’s authored a book and spoken across the US and Europe, bringing community-first thinking to platform design. A detail-minded engineer, he often focuses on subtle correctness and performance fixes—especially around rendering, namespaced attributes, and UI behavior—that pay dividends in large apps.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (43)
ruby-rails10
javascript10
ember-data10
jquery10
coffeescript10
handlebars10
ember-addon10
testing10
component-development10
css10
ember-cli10
typescript10
rails10
html-editor10
ui-design10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
brendon/ranked-model
Jan 2011 - Jul 2018
An acts_as_sortable/acts_as_list replacement built for Rails 4+
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:87 commits, 7 PRs, 12 pushes in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on developing and refining the back-end logic of the `ranked-model` library, which is designed to replace `acts_as_sortable/acts_as_list` in Rails. Their work involved refactoring the core `Ranker` class, introducing optimizations, and addressing edge cases to improve the library's performance and stability. Additionally, the user added comprehensive testing, including real-world sorting examples to validate the functionality across various scenarios, and ensured compatibility with Rails 4.
rails
Addepar/ember-table
May 2018 - Nov 2022
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 95 reviews, 91 commits in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the Ember table project. They implemented a blank page for performance testing, updated demo data for selection, and fixed an issue related to the "update prop already used in computation". Additionally, the user updated row count when tree collapses and modified test helpers for Ember 4.0. Several commits address angle bracket and dependency updates.
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