Matthew Jaquish
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Jaquish is a Senior Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11+ years building scalable, user-facing systems and infrastructure across companies like Netflix, Zynga, and eBay. He blends deep front-end craftsmanship—UI toolkits, CSS/component systems, and one-way data flows—with backend and systems work, having implemented shared client state, server-side services, and performance-focused optimizations. Known for treating software as an art, he drives architecture and developer experience improvements (toolchains, formatting standards, and CSS modernization) while mentoring teams to elevate quality. His background in Human Centered Design & Engineering informs pragmatic product-focused decisions, and he often invents bespoke solutions—such as virtual-scrolling, runtime composition models, and Node/Scala services—to bridge UX goals and engineering constraints.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BA, History, BA, History at University of Washington
English, Chinese
Github Skills (54)
javascript10
visualizer10
emotion10
babel-plugin10
state-machine10
frontend10
react10
coffeescript9
reactive9
xstate9
user-interface9
webpack9
react-component9
interpreter9
typescript9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Zenwolf/babel-plugin-dev
Jul 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 5 months
babeldevprocess-envbabel-pluginnode-env
Zenwolf/kanso
Jul 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:20 pushes, 2 branches, 1 tag in 10 months
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