Matthew Crist
Co-Founder And Chief Of Technology at Helm: The boring Drupal maintenance company
Georgetown, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Crist is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder who brings 14+ years of experience architecting resilient, low-complexity systems for public-sector and mission-driven organizations. As fractional CTO at Rudder and co-founder of Helm, he pairs hands-on full-stack skills across Drupal, Rails, and React with pragmatic operational tooling—everything from GTFS-enabled transit apps to accessible design systems and zero-downtime pipelines. He’s led initiatives for the City of Boston, MTA, County of Marin, and Berklee, consistently focusing on developer velocity and preventing team burnout. Based in Georgetown, MA, Matthew combines strong product sensibility and UX-aware front-end craftsmanship with an insistence on maintainable infrastructure—on weekends you’re more likely to find him tending a smoker than a server.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Stackoverflow
11reputation
279reached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (60)
drupal10
displays10
pattern10
fractal10
testcafe10
six10
gatsbyjs10
css9
php9
doit9
agile8
notice8
gatsby7
web-application7
open-source7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
CityOfBoston/cob-themes
Mar 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:25 commits, 8 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 7 months
csscountercss-theme
hondocode/how-to-properly-log-an-issue
Sep 2016 - Aug 2021
A styleguide for logging issues.
Contributions:3 PRs, 12 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 11 months
cssloggingstyleguide
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