Matthew Edwards
Senior Engineer at Faire
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Edwards is a Senior Engineer and front-end specialist with 13 years of experience building developer-facing tooling and user experiences, most recently at Faire after a long tenure at LinkedIn. He led teams that created LinkedIn’s cross-platform design system and later architected and maintained a lightweight server-rendered web framework used for SEO and guest traffic, while driving the companywide TypeScript migration through tooling like Rehearsal-JS. Comfortable alternating between hands-on build-tool work and people leadership, he’s improved developer productivity by shipping IDE plugins, migration automation, and build-time template optimizations (notably contributing to Embroider’s rollup-hbs plugin). Based in San Jose, he combines pragmatic engineering with a designer’s attention to UX and accessibility, and prefers tackling projects that reduce developer friction at scale.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
De Anza CollegeBachelor of Science Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science Software Engineering at San José State University
English
Github Skills (8)
emberjs10
javascript10
rollupjs10
handlebars9
frontend8
webpack8
webpacker8
web-frontend8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
embroider-build/embroider
Mar 2022 - Jun 2022
Compiling Ember apps into spec-compliant, modern Javascript.
Role in this project:
Frontend Developer
Frontend DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 18 commits, 4 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily worked on the `rollup-hbs-plugin` within the Embroider project, focusing on enhancing its functionality. Their contributions include adding a `resolveId` hook to handle file resolution, improving the integration of Handlebars templates, and modifying the plugin to correctly namespace preprocessor trees. The user also refactored the template transform plugin to depend on `babel-plugin-stage1-inline-hbs`. These changes suggest a focus on optimizing the build process and template compilation for Ember applications.
ember-addoncompliantjavascriptspec-compliantspec
wondersloth/glimmer-experimental
Feb 2021 - Jun 2023
A set of experimental high-level APIs built on Glimmer.js
Contributions:2 PRs, 23 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 4 months
apijavascripthigh-levelglimmer
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