Michael Mathews
Co-Founder at Accessible Thinking
Wyre Forest, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMichael Mathews is a seasoned web application developer and co-founder with 16 years of experience building accessible, high-availability full stack services for media and education sectors. He blends front-end interaction design expertise (JavaScript, CSS, jQuery) with back-end skills in PHP, Node.js and MySQL, and has driven accessibility-focused engineering at the BBC and through his consultancy work. A contributor to the widely used JSDoc project, he has improved core parsing and documentation generation—work that underpins better developer tooling and maintainability. With a background in education and museum studies, he brings a user-centred, pedagogical approach to designing usable digital experiences and automated publishing pipelines. Based in Wyre Forest, he now leads Accessible Thinking to help organisations adopt AI ethically and accessibly.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Education (M.S.Ed.), Museum Education, Master of Science in Education (M.S.Ed.), Museum Education at Bank Street College of EducationBachelor of Education, Secondary Education, Bachelor of Education, Secondary Education at State University of New York at Oswego
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Github Skills (14)
javascript10
jsdoc10
document-generation10
parsing10
documents10
parse10
documentation10
nodejs9
couchdb6
scripting-language6
html6
oop6
design-patterns6
php6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jsdoc/jsdoc
Mar 2010 - Oct 2012
An API documentation generator for JavaScript.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:358 commits, 2 comments in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Michael contributed to the core functionality of the JSDoc Toolkit, focusing on improving code parsing and documentation generation. Their work included implementing and refining features related to comments, tags, and documentation generation, such as handling @enum, @member, @constructs, @memberof!, @this, @todo and other tags, which are critical to the tools core functionality. Additionally, the user integrated a plugin to support custom @source tags and modified the template for improved documentation. Furthermore, the user introduced fixes for common bugs around var scopes, link generation and code that was causing the tool to crash.
apijsdocdocumentation-generatorjavascriptapi-documentation
micmath/gifpander
Feb 2018 - Jun 2022
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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