Matt Wells

Education

University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte NC

• Master of Science in Computer Science

  January 2019 - December 2022

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science August 2016 - May 2020

Work Experience

• Senior Software Engineer

  July 2023 - Present

  Raptor Maps, Remote

  • Planned, lead, and implemented numerous features for customer-facing and internal products.
    • Developed a feature for an internal product during a hackathon that improved user efficiency by 60%.
    • Planned and implemented end-to-end the ability to automatically take snapshots of the Map view so customers could take physical copies out into the field.
    • Improved peformance of our main Map product by adding caching, preventing duplicate API calls, and efficiently sharing data across the view.
    • Built a new, responsive Dashboard experience with custom charts to give users a high-level view of the performance of their solar farms.
    • Planned and implemented end-to-end an updated, streamlined experience for communicating order status to customers.
  • Co-maintained the internal component library, Raptor UI.
  • Mentored a summer intern.
  • Led group viewing sessions of Kent C. Dodds' Epic React course.

• Senior Developer

  October 2021 - July 2023

  Levvel, Charlotte NC → Endava, Charlotte NC

  • Co-led the frontend architecture and development of a greenfield product for a startup company (Foro.io).
    • Co-led planning for new features for the frontend development team.
    • Provided insight into the design of the backend architecture by developing entity-relationship diagrams and brainstorming solutions for new features.
    • Designed and implemented a GraphQL service layer API for communicating with a micro-service backend (Iris Talk Presentation).
    • Designed and implemented a set of form components with validation to reduce development effort and ensure consistency throughout the UI (Formidable).
  • Planned, coordinated, and lead a bench project for searching and inventoring developer skills within the company.
  • Designed, organized, led, and presented the development of a developer efforting tool as part of the Innovation Project competition (DevsPlayingPoker).
  • Presented a technical introduction to the WebSockets JavaScript API (Recording).
  • Presented on the “Innovation Mindset” to the 2022 early-talent cohort.

• Software Engineer

  June 2020 - October 2021

  SentryOne, Charlotte NC → SolarWinds, Charlotte NC

  • Effectively participated in various scrum agile efforts including daily standups, sprint planning, product demos and retrospectives on a biweekly basis.
  • Consistently improved software quality through unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
  • Collaborated with Product Managers and UI/UX to improve product usability.
  • Successfully implemented an automated system to build a test database in Docker to be used for integration testing.
  • Successfully developed a highly dynamic interface for creating custom data charts.
  • Successfully developed a security model under a rigorous timeline including leading UI development.
  • Developed and presented a demo application to peers showing how to implement Emotion JS in React.
  • Technologies used: React JS, Apollo for GraphQL, Jest, C#, .NET, SQL Server, Azure Dev Ops.

Personal Projects

• CATCh Website

  The official website for the Comedy Arts Theater of Charlotte.

  • Astro, NodeJS, TailwindCSS
  • https://catch.theater

• Love Pebble

  A web-based version of the board game Love Letter.

  • ReactJS (Typescript), Deno, Chakra UI
  • https://lovepebble.mattwells.dev

• Devs Playing Poker

  A tool for developers and scrum managers to effort work items as quickly as possible.

  • SolidJS (Typescript), Sass, UnoCSS, Deno
  • https://devsplayingpoker.com