Matthew Smith
React Developer
Tucson, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Smith is a React developer with 10 years of software engineering experience who builds and ships JavaScript applications across React, Redux, Electron, Meteor, and React Native. He’s founded and led product development for TopoDrop, a live-embed mapping service, and co-ran a small studio, demonstrating both entrepreneurial product thinking and hands-on implementation. His background includes modernizing legacy systems at the VA—integrating Intersystems Cache with Express/React, implementing JWT auth, and converting large PDFs into interactive knowledge bases—alongside training engineers in practical JavaScript practices. A former USAF systems and network operator, he brings deep operational rigor and data-integrity focus to front-end engineering and web services. Based in Tucson, he balances continuous improvement through deliberate practice, teaching, and endurance cycling, which he credits for sustained productivity and focus.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at American Military UniversityAssociate in Applied Science, Information Systems Technology, Associate in Applied Science, Information Systems Technology at Community College of the Air Force
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Github Skills (91)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
azamatsmith/rc-files
Oct 2015 - Mar 2020
Contributions:6 PRs, 65 pushes, 8 branches in 4 years 5 months
wildsmithstudio/wildsmith
Jan 2018 - Mar 2019
Wildsmith Studio Website
Contributions:77 PRs, 163 pushes, 83 branches in 1 year 2 months
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