Matthew Meling Hayward is a Full Stack Quality Engineer with 10 years of experience building robust automation and QA infrastructures for startups and enterprise teams. As "King of QA" and part-time DevOps at PunttAI and Meaningful Gigs, he designs Playwright- and WebdriverIO-based test frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and AI-assisted validation to embed quality early in the delivery lifecycle. He has led large-scale automation efforts across web, iOS, and Android—authoring thousands of tests and production-ready toolsets for companies like Grubhub and Hungryroot. Matthew pairs hands-on scripting in TypeScript and Python with mentoring and hiring to grow quality-first teams and operationalize release automation. Based in Tacoma, he brings a practical blend of QA architecture and DevOps tooling that reduces manual toil and accelerates shipping. An arts-educated technologist, he often applies design-minded problem solving to streamline testing and developer experience.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Remington College
Bachelor of Science Art, Bachelor of Science Art at Art Institute of California, San Diego
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