Matthew Krick
Chief HTML Programmer at Parabol
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Krick is a technical cofounder and Principal Engineer with 11 years of experience building Parabol from idea to a Series A company serving over 150,000 users, where he still drives full‑stack development and integrations as Chief HTML Programmer. He blends hands‑on TypeScript and backend work—refactoring UI components and improving third‑party integrations like Jira—with product leadership rooted in operations and sustainable business practices. Earlier roles span project management at Boeing, business intelligence at Ecova for Fortune 500 clients, and international development work teaching risk management and programming during his Peace Corps service. Comfortable shipping product features and type fixes alike, he also contributes to widely used open‑source TypeScript definitions, showing attention to developer experience beyond his own product. Based in San Diego, he pairs technical depth with a founder’s sense for purposeful meetings and transparent team processes.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of California San DiegoB.B.A., Operations and Technology Management, 3.8 GPA (Upper-level), B.B.A., Operations and Technology Management, 3.8 GPA (Upper-level) at University of PortlandB.A., Spanish, B.A., Spanish at Universidad de Granada
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
4,883reputation
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135answers
64questions
meteor
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mongodb
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Github Skills (23)
javascript10
jira-integration10
typescript10
typescript-definitions10
type-definition10
dts10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
wpgraphql9
meteor9
wordpress-graphql9
nodejs9
mongodb9
graphql9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ParabolInc/parabol
Apr 2016 - Jan 2023
Free online agile retrospective meeting tool
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1485 reviews, 5977 commits, 3699 PRs in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Matt Krick's commits in the `parabol/parabol` repository primarily involve refactoring and implementing changes to various components of the application. His work spans both backend and frontend systems, addressing TypeScript issues and improving Jira integration. He also added features like the ability to change the due date. His contributions directly impact the user interface and the integration with 3rd party services.
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DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Jan 2019 - Oct 2019
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 3 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to TypeScript type definitions, addressing issues and adding support for relay-runtime and aframe libraries. They fixed function signatures, made fields nullable, and added generics to storeTypes. Additionally, the user merged branches and updated test examples related to AFrame.
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