Matthew Spence
VP Of Software Development at CLICS
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Spence is a pragmatic software leader with 15 years of experience building products, teams, and operational systems, now serving as VP of Software Development in San Diego. He moves fluently between hands-on engineering and executive duties, having led frontend and analytics initiatives as Front End Lead at Novata and Lead Engineer Analytics at GrooveHQ, and co-founded multiple startups where he owned technical strategy and ops. Matthew has a track record of shipping resilient systems and rapid prototypes—evidenced by contributions to the popular Leaflet mapping library where he improved marker interaction and documentation—and of creating repeatable fulfillment and compliance processes for ecommerce. He thrives in fast-moving, resource-constrained environments, comfortable stepping into marketing, warehouse design, or sysadmin work to solve the problem at hand. Known for mentoring engineers and making teams self-managing, he balances product vision with pragmatic tradeoffs to deliver measurable customer impact.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Royal Hospital SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Multimedia Design and Technology, 2:1, Bachelor’s Degree, Multimedia Design and Technology, 2:1 at University of Kent
English, spanish (basic but learning)
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
maps10
javascript10
ui-design10
ajax6
aggregation-framework6
validation6
mongodb6
file-upload6
asset-pipeline6
ruby-on-rails6
retinajs6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Leaflet/Leaflet
Apr 2011 - Apr 2011
🍃 JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps 🇺🇦
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the interactive map library, `leaflet/leaflet`, by enhancing the functionality of markers. They added the ability to drag markers, refactored marker dragging into a dedicated handler, and incorporated shadow support for draggable markers. Additionally, the user added documentation for marker interaction, specifically focusing on the new draggable functionality. They also fixed a bug related to popup content display.
javascriptmobileleaflet
msaspence/pancho
Aug 2016 - Dec 2019
Draft spec for mapping, deriving and selecting data
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 4 months
derivingmappingselectingspec
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