Matthew Matz
Treasurer at Piper Learning, Inc.
Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Matz is an educator-turned-engineering leader with 10+ years blending classroom leadership and hands-on product development in educational technology. He designs and ships hardware, firmware (C/C++/Python), and web front-ends—specializing in Blockly-driven microcontroller experiences that make coding accessible to students. As Director of Engineering at Piper Learning and Treasurer for a cultural nonprofit, he pairs pragmatic product design with operational stewardship. His background as a principal and teacher informs data-driven curricula, intervention programs, and teacher training that scale across districts. Notably, he built production Blockly tooling and C sensor libraries used to lower the barrier for classroom robotics. Based in Oregon, he combines school leadership expertise (M.Ed.) with maker skills to deliver usable, equitable STEM solutions.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Education (M.Ed.), School Leadership, Educational Administration, Master of Education (M.Ed.), School Leadership, Educational Administration at University of PortlandEducational Leadership and Administration, General, Educational Leadership and Administration, General at Lewis & Clark CollegeBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Science Teacher Education/General Science Teacher Education, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Science Teacher Education/General Science Teacher Education at Concordia College
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Github Skills (32)
blockly10
visual-programming10
parallax9
controller9
rp-pico9
realms9
sketchup8
static-files8
workspace8
adafruit8
cpython7
micropython7
azerothcore7
embedded6
webserver6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
MatzElectronics/BlocklyProp
Jul 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:18 PRs, 130 pushes, 7 branches in 2 months
visual-programming-editorpropellervisual-programmingblocklyspin
parallaxinc/BlocklyProp-cdn
Jul 2018 - Nov 2019
Static files used by the BlocklyProp web server
Contributions:233 PRs, 96 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 4 months
static-fileswebserver
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