Matthew Shields
Web Developer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Shields is a full-stack web developer based in Chicago with eight years of experience building JS-focused applications using React, Node, and PostgreSQL for both startups and large clients, including consulting work for Walmart. He combines a design background in architecture and construction with software engineering, giving him a strong sense for user experience, performance optimization, and practical project coordination across distributed teams in the US and China. Matthew maintains active open-source projects—most notably a public sumo wrestling API and a sumo rank formatter—and contributes tooling and testing improvements in TypeScript and Dockerized workflows. He has hands-on experience optimizing Squarespace sites for SEO and page speed, building real-time multiplayer apps with Socket.IO, and designing full-CRUD systems backed by Postgres and TypeORM. Comfortable switching between front-end polish and back-end infrastructure, he brings creative problem-solving informed by award-winning design work and international field experience. Outside of coding he’s a cyclist, citizen scientist, and sumo enthusiast, which fuels some of his niche open-source projects.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Web Developer Bootcamp, Web Developer Bootcamp at DevMountainMasters, Architecture: Concentration in Sustainable Design, Masters, Architecture: Concentration in Sustainable Design at Judson University
English, Chinese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
75reputation
12kreached
3answers
3questions
Github Skills (21)
sumo8
javascript7
package-json6
database-migration6
create-react-app6
closures6
nodejs6
api6
typeorm6
node-postgres6
python6
postgresql6
markdown5
json4
react-like4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MDShields7/dohyo-dreams
Apr 2019 - Nov 2019
Fantasy Sports - Japanese Sumo stats API
Contributions:31 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
apijapanesesumostatssports
MDShields7/sumo-rank
May 2019 - Oct 2020
Tools for sumo wrestling ranks: format and sort
Contributions:2 reviews, 49 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 5 months
pythonwrestlingjavascriptpython-3sumo
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