Matthew Mcvickar
Full-stack Engineer at CalMatters
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Mcvickar is a full-stack engineer based in Portland with nearly two decades of experience designing and shipping elegant web products, and 14 years in professional engineering roles. He brings deep WordPress expertise alongside modern JavaScript and PHP skills, having led engineering at Postlight/Launch by NTT DATA and now building newsroom-grade systems at CalMatters. Comfortable shifting between hands-on development, plugin architecture, and product-focused consulting, he’s known for pragmatic solutions that balance craft and maintainability. A former art director and copy-involved developer, he blends strong front-end sensibility and content strategy with backend discipline. Outside work he’s a self-described “music fiend,” a hint of creative instincts that inform his approach to UX and code.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BA Cum Laude English Literature Japanese Language and Literature, BA Cum Laude English Literature Japanese Language and Literature at University of Massachusetts AmherstJapanese Post-war Fiction Japanese Culture, Japanese Post-war Fiction Japanese Culture at Kansai Gaidai University
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
92reputation
10kreached
7answers
1question
Github Skills (200)
jquery-plugin10
infinite-scroll10
metadata10
firefox-addon10
ruby10
gutenberg10
webextension10
clipboard10
opengraph10
vimeo10
markdown10
seo10
dailymotion10
wordpress10
youtube10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
matthewmcvickar/oblique-questions-bot
Nov 2015 - Feb 2023
Contributions:123 commits, 134 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 4 months
ocupop/adlibs
Jul 2012 - Jan 2014
Contributions:442 commits in 1 year 6 months
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