Matthew Martindale
Founder at Recovery.com
City of Glens Falls, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarMatthew Martindale is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience building modern, lightweight products and teams across startups and high-growth companies. He combines hands-on front-end craftsmanship—having contributed UI features to JW Player’s widely used embeddable media player—with product design instincts and a focus on Jamstack and serverless architectures. Matthew has co-founded and sold companies twice, led distributed engineering teams, and scaled systems for education and video platforms at organizations like 2U and Noodle. He emphasizes building high-output, empathetic engineering cultures that preserve focus as companies grow, reducing developer risk and technical cost. Active in his local community, he runs a recording studio and civic initiatives in Glens Falls while continuing to mentor engineers from junior to senior levels. His career blends entrepreneurial grit, practical engineering, and a persistent appetite for learning and simplification.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (7)
css10
uid10
javascript10
lessc10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
responsive-design9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jwplayer/jwplayer
Sep 2016 - Jan 2017
JW Player is the world's most popular embeddable media player.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:46 commits, 50 PRs, 120 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on front-end development, specifically for the JW Player. Their commits demonstrate significant work on UI components and skinning, including implementing a "next up" display, modifying control bar elements, and adjusting the appearance across different skins (Vapor, Five). The user also addressed display icon scaling and color adjustments, making improvements across multiple breakpoints. In addition, the user made changes to support the ads/live functionality within the player.
html5-videoandroidmedia-playervideo-playermse
madikarizma/ui-framework
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:1 release, 17 PRs, 36 pushes in 1 month
ui-frameworkframeworkdependency-freeui-componentsflexbox
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