Summary
Matthew Garza is a Full Stack Engineer with nine years of technical experience and a seven-year focus on Node/Express and React/Redux stacks, currently building product at CoachEm. He combines production web engineering with a background in nuclear engineering and systems testing, bringing rigorous data-driven problem solving from lab and defense environments into software design. His work spans backend SQL modeling and CI-focused TDD to front-end tooling—he built a VS Code extension that parses React/Redux ASTs to visualize component state and actions—demonstrating an appetite for developer ergonomics and compiler-style tooling. A proven mentor and interviewer, he has led training and code reviews, modernized legacy codebases, and increased test coverage in CI pipelines. Based in Stonington, CT, he blends disciplined engineering practices, test-first development, and a knack for extracting structure from complex systems.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Nuclear Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University