Summary
Matthew Spencer is a Senior Software Engineer II with 12 years of experience, currently shaping listing processes at Etsy from his base in Ithaca, New York. He has progressed through multiple product domains at Etsy—design systems, personalization, checkout, and Pathfinders—demonstrating a knack for shipping cross-cutting frontend and platform improvements. His background in UX, creative technology, and senior engineering roles gives him a rare blend of design sensibility and robust engineering practice. Comfortable moving between product-facing features and underlying systems, he excels at translating design systems into scalable, developer-friendly implementations. Colleagues would describe him as pragmatic, detail-oriented, and consistently focused on improving developer experience as well as user outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer