Engineer & Builder

Building product UIs and frontend systems that hold up.

I'm Matt. Ten-plus years building interfaces that feel good to use and codebases that are meant to last.

Software Engineer @ Mailgun by Sinch Founder @ Nova Foundry

What I do

Three lanes I keep flowing — the throughline is making products easier to use, easier to build, and easier to change over time.

Product UI

Interfaces that solve the immediate problem without making the codebase worse.

I lead user-facing work with sensible flows, accessible components, and patterns that hold up well past their first ship.

React · TypeScript · Design systems · Accessibility

Frontend systems

Shared patterns that reduce friction for the team.

Data flow, component boundaries, and APIs that make new work easier to add, review, and maintain.

TanStack Query · Node.js · Component APIs · DX

Delivery quality

Engineering habits that keep releases steady.

Code quality, documentation, and standards that catch mistakes early and make collaboration less expensive.

Testing · Documentation · Standards · Product collaboration

Selected work

Teams and products I've helped shape over the last decade.

  1. 01

    Mailgun by Sinch

    Software Engineer IV

    2021 — Present

    Frontend systems, engineering standards, and architectural direction across a high-volume email platform.

    Setting the bar on UI quality, build infrastructure, and the engineering habits that compound across teams.

  2. 02

    Digital Trends Media Group

    Senior Web Developer

    2015 — 2021

    Led frontend development for a new ad framework supporting millions of monthly readers.

    A revenue-critical platform editorial could trust, without asking readers to suffer through a worse experience.

  3. 03

    Thursday Market

    Web Developer

    2014 — 2015

    Built the foundation of my frontend practice — UI features, social API integrations, and the surrounding plumbing.

    First proof that I cared as much about what gets shipped as about shipping it.

Projects

Work I lead outside the day job.

Nova Foundry

Founder

Nova Foundry

Forged in Orbit

A software studio for systems built to last — custom engineering, cloud-native applications, and intelligent products.

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CosmicNvim

Maintainer

CosmicNvim

A Neovim distribution for web developers

A Neovim setup that strips out friction for daily web development — sensible defaults, fast startup, deliberate keymaps.

View on GitHub

Now

Updated

What I'm focused on right now.

Building Nova Foundry — a studio for software forged, not manufactured.

Tuning CosmicNvim between cycles. Sharpening daily tools is part of how I stay fast.

Reading: less AI commentary, more primary sources.

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Let's build something useful.