Matthew Griffith
Miami, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Griffith is a versatile software engineer with 12 years of experience building full-stack systems and APIs, fluent in Python, JavaScript, Elm, and Elixir and proficient in Haskell. Comfortable across cloud platforms (Google Compute, AWS), container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and databases like Postgres and Neo4j, he balances rapid, reliable shipping with continual learning. He has held senior and staff engineering roles at startups and academic environments, most recently as Principal Engineer before joining Appy.AI, and brings strong Unix/system-level chops. Matthew is also an active open-source front-end contributor—improving the popular elm-ui toolkit to reduce reliance on CSS—reflecting his focus on ergonomic developer APIs and polished UX. He combines scientific training (B.S. Biology) with pragmatic engineering, often translating complex domain needs into clear, production-ready interfaces.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Stackoverflow
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218reached
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Github Skills (6)
user-interface10
front-end-development10
elm10
documentation8
foreign-data-wrapper6
postgresql6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mdgriffith/elm-ui
Jan 2018 - Aug 2022
What if you never had to write CSS again?
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:504 commits, 43 PRs, 317 pushes in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Matthew focused on enhancing the `elm-ui` library, a design toolkit for building user interfaces without writing CSS. Their contributions include implementing a new design toolkit, fixing typos, updating documentation, and refactoring various code elements. The user also added support for font variants and made improvements to multiline input features such as proper height calculation and handling of scrollbars.
cssneverwhat-if
mdgriffith/elm-path
Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:22 commits, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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