Matt Schick

Ride with GPS, Senior Software Engineer

• Built 3D mapping for all surfaces on the Web, and related performance benchmarking system that enabled faster iteration and better feedback for agentic development
• Improved PR review by building a system that ran custom agents on incoming PRs, reducing review fatique and increasing code quality/consistency
• Improved agentic coding output with targeted skills and custom lint for deterministic enforcement of coding standards

Grubhub, Staff Software Engineer

• Finished replatforming effort from AngularJS/Preact to React.
• Mentored fellow engineers across Web teams, with a focus on making pragmatic decisions while working in a large legacy codebase.
• Drove planning and prioritization for tech debt and internal improvements.
• Brought modernization and consistency to large SPA using custom codemods.

Jellyvision Labs, Staff Software Engineer

• Built a “low-code” content authoring tool + playback engine in Typescript/React
• Developed features for Python and Ruby on Rails platform services
• Modernized a 10 year old NodeJS app, simplying a sprawling AWS Lambda implementation and enabling better observability in production.
• Built ETL pipeline with AWS, enabling internationalization across products
• Tech lead on multiple teams, with a focus on mentorship, reducing change-lead time

Stellar Elements, Frontend Team Lead

• Lead a team building frontend applications in a variety of frameworks
• Defined and documented best practices for the team and company
• Mentored team members via code reviews as well as with 1-on-1 sessions

Güdtech, Inc., Senior Software Engineer

• Migrated large ExtJS application to Ember without delaying new feature development
• Built web-based “Point of Sale” with deep integrations into physical devices and backend inventory systems
• Standardized developer interactions/workflows by authoring SOPs
• Mentored junior developers and designed an onboarding program for new hires

Fuelbox, Technical Co-Founder

• Built Python/Django web application to assist fuel-hauling companies to receive, dispatch, and track orders
• Built companion mobile application for drivers in the field to scan and process receipts from the phone

Columbia College Chicago, Lecturer

• Instructed intro through advanced level students, adapting established lesson plans and creating new ones to meet the needs of the college
• Coached students one on one during weekly office hours
• Architected and built a full-stack web application in Node.js for students to create interactive installations of text/image/audio/video driven by semantic tagging of media
• Designed with micro-services architecture and heavy use of Websockets

Old Town School of Folk Music, Software Developer (Contract)

• Selected, deployed and customized an open source audio streaming application, which allowed students and teachers to listen to the school’s large private catalog of recordings

onShore Development, Lisp Developer

• Maintained and improved a large Lisp web application
• Dealt with large datasets, deeply nested logic, and a 10+ year old codebase

Emulsion.Me, Technical Co-Founder

• Developed in Django/Javascript a SaaS app to help photographers display their portfolios
• Built site so that all aspects of a portfolio could be edited live

CouponCabin.com, Django Developer

• Maintained and implemented new features on high volume email application written in Django
• Came in having no knowledge of Django or Python and was making fixes and writing production code within a month
• Added test coverage where none existed and gradually refactored features that were broken or inefficient

Freelance, Web Developer (Contract)

• Columbia College Chicago: took existing static site and built administrative backend in Ruby on Rails used to centralize various office tasks, working with staff to translate office workflow into a functional web application
• What Do You Know About Romeo?: ported existing PHP website over to Ruby on Rails and added community features
• Chicago Youth Voices Network and Open Youth Networks: customized Wordpress installations, wrote custom tools to integrate with 3rd party services, and set up video conferencing for a youth video production workshop
• Assisted in training youth to use blogging and other social media tools

Microsoft, Flash Developer (Contract)

• Built e-learning course in Flash and integrated it into Microsoft’s SCORM system
• The course used heavy amounts of video streaming, branching narratives, and smart suspend and resume capabilities that went beyond traditional starting and stopping of a course

Emvoy, Perl Developer

• Wrote and maintained perl webspider for search engine as well as specific webspiders for obtaining additional metadata
• Took the initiative to learn perl on the job as a solution for more customized spidering tasks