Matthew Gross
Founder Lead Developer at Self-Employed Contractor / MPG Consulting
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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SeniorMatthew Gross is a founder and senior full-stack developer with 12 years of experience building scalable web platforms, currently leading development at Escalated and serving as Senior Full-Stack Developer/SRE at Stallion Express while also acting as CTO of RentPanda. He blends hands-on engineering across React, Laravel, PHP, Python and DevOps with a strong security focus—having conducted penetration testing and led security initiatives for multiple clients. Matthew has run his own consulting practice since 2011, shipping production systems, integrating blockchain experiments, and automating complex workflows for North American businesses. Beyond tech leadership he organizes one of Toronto’s largest developer meetups, runs a charitable animal rescue as a pilot, and serves in the Infantry Reserve, reflecting uncommon operational discipline and community commitment. Comfortable bridging product and infrastructure, he excels at turning ambiguous requirements into audited, reliable systems that scale for e-commerce and enterprise customers.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (62)
jquery-plugin10
captcha10
jquery10
admin10
lists10
factory10
bower10
laravel10
scrolling10
jsdelivr10
laravel-package10
php10
laravel-admin10
api10
voyager10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mpge/photographer-portfolio-example
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:19 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
mpge/CorrectPermissions
Aug 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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