Matthew Berns
Senior Software Engineer I at Enova International
Oak Park, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Berns is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience who transitioned from marketing and editorial roles into full‑stack development, specializing in accessibility and standards-driven educational tools. He spent five years contributing to Instructure’s open-source Canvas LMS—improving UI, rubric management, outcomes calculations, and WAI‑ARIA accessibility across Rails and React codebases—and now builds secure authentication flows and automated customer‑service tools at Enova. Comfortable across legacy and modern stacks (Backbone/Coffeescript to React), he combines pragmatic refactoring with feature work and a strong emphasis on measurable UX and assistive‑technology improvements. His background in writing and product-facing roles gives him an unusual knack for translating stakeholder needs into clear technical solutions and durable tooling.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Communication English, Bachelor's degree Communication English at Loyola University ChicagoAssociate's degree Journalism, Associate's degree Journalism at Broward College
English, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
javascript10
canvas-lms10
react9
handlebars9
acc8
acessibility8
accessibility8
ruby8
accessibilityservice8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
instructure/canvas-lms
Jul 2014 - Mar 2019
The open LMS by Instructure, Inc.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:303 commits in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Matthew's contributions primarily focused on refactoring and improving the user interface (UI) of the Canvas LMS platform. This involved reverting and removing components, specifically the OutcomeActionsPopoverMenu, and modifying the display of rubric management features. Additionally, the user implemented features such as allowing extra credit for outcomes, alongside fixing a variety of UI and accessibility-related issues related to rubric display and handling. These changes involved modifications to JavaScript, Handlebars templates, Ruby, and associated testing files.
open-lmsinstructurecanvas-lmslmsinc
MLBerns/trainapp
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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