Matthew Fotzler
Principal Engineer at Pixo
Champaign, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Fotzler is a Principal Engineer with 14 years of experience helping organizations deliver reliable, maintainable software across web, desktop, mobile, and hardware-integrated systems. Based in Champaign, Illinois, he brings deep Microsoft-stack experience (ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework, SQL Server) alongside modern front-end and static-site approaches (Angular, SSGs) and pragmatic AWS usage. As a consultant-turned-leader at Pixo, he’s built everything from serial-controlled hardware interfaces and WPF tablet apps to database-backed web services and OpenLayers map visualizations, while also running CI/CD infrastructure and mentoring teams. He’s passionate about accessibility and sustainable development practices that keep projects healthy and welcoming to contributors long-term. Colleagues rely on him for cross-stack problem solving and for translating domain needs into pragmatic, well-tested solutions. An early background in language tooling and teaching gives him a knack for clear abstractions and helping others learn complex systems.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Math and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Math and Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignAssociate of Science (A.S.) Computer Science, Associate of Science (A.S.) Computer Science at Parkland College
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Github Skills (20)
tile-server7
asp-net6
nodejs6
windows6
asp-net-mvc6
validation6
gruntjs6
windows-runtime6
effort6
nominatim5
openstreetmap-data5
openstreetmap4
csharp4
docker4
game-development4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mfotzler/phaser3-frogger
Feb 2023 - Feb 2023
Contributions:19 pushes, 5 branches in 5 days
mfotzler/psx-flappy-bird
Feb 2023 - Feb 2023
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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