Summary
Matthew Keys is a seasoned freelance web developer based in Raleigh, NC with 11 years of experience specializing in WordPress plugin development, API integrations, and pagespeed optimization. He helps agencies and companies extend WordPress beyond its defaults, shipping custom solutions and maintaining several open-source plugins in the WordPress repository. His background includes leadership and hands-on roles—acting as Director of Development and lead developer—where he set code quality standards, mentored teams, and owned project architecture and client-facing technical strategy. Comfortable across PHP/MySQL back-ends and modern front-end workflows (CSS3/HTML5, jQuery, Sass/LESS), he also brings practical ops and troubleshooting experience from earlier roles. Outside of code he pursues hands-on crafts like woodworking, gardening, and energy-conservation projects, a preference that informs his pragmatic, efficiency-driven approach to web performance.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer