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Matt Whitaker

Senior Full-stack Engineer

Over a decade of building cloud based-web applications, owning fully-vertical and complex product spaces. Specializing in enterprise scale, B2B applications and product-supporting microservices. Deep experience in React with broad experience across multiple backend stacks.

    • React
    • TypeScript
    • Redux
    • TanStack

    Interface

    A decade of React-based interfaces.

    • Tailwind CSS
    • Bootstrap
    • Figma
    • Storybook

    Style & Design

    A token-first approach to styling, adaptable across ecosystems.

    • Node.js
    • Python
    • Java
    • MySQL

    Services

    Experience across a wide variety of server-side languages.

    • AWS
    • Docker
    • Terraform

    Cloud

    Serverless and containerized applications.

    • GitHub
    • Vite
    • Claude Code

    Workflow

    Automation, AI workflows, integrated CI/CD

Stack

a rough picture of me.

A general look at the kinds of technology I have worked with, showcasing stronger experience. I'm always interested in learning new things and trying new technology.

Career

what I've worked with

My focus has always been front-facing applications and interface concerns. It's what I'm strongest at

  • Design systems & component libraries
  • Data-dense dashboards & analytics
  • Administrative & internal tooling
  • Marketing & landing experiences
  • Accessibility & internationalization
  • Web performance
  • HTML / CSS / JavaScript 13 yrs
  • TypeScript 6 yrs
  • React 9 yrs
  • RxJS 5 yrs
  • Figma / Zeplin 9 yrs
  • Tailwind 3 yrs

I've had opportunities to work on a diverse range of stacks.

  • RESTful API design
  • Backend-for-frontend & orchestration
  • Distributed microservices
  • Serverless & event-driven workloads
  • Email & SMS communications
  • In-product PUSH service
  • Content management systems
  • Node.js / Express 4 yrs
  • C# / .NET 4 yrs
  • Java / Spring Boot 5 yrs
  • Python / Flask 2 yrs

Plenty of opportunities to think about data design.

  • Complex relational databases
  • Multi-stage cache modeling
  • NoSQL and tail-end stores
  • Failover and recovery
  • Scale and performance optimization
  • SQL / MySQL 12 yrs
  • No SQL / MongoDB / DynamoDB 2 yrs
  • Caching / Redis / ElastiCache 9 yrs

My experience is largely in the AWS space, but I've worked on a number of infrastructures.

  • Gateway & orchestration
  • Serverless infrastructure
  • CI/CD & deployment pipelines
  • Container platforms (Kubernetes)
  • Performance & service scaling
  • Microservice Architecture 9 yrs
  • AWS 9 yrs
  • Docker / Kubernetes 9 yrs
  • Serverless 6 yrs

Open to Senior Frontend or Full-stack roles — fully remote, or onsite/hybrid.
Seattle Eastside / Bellevue / Redmond.
W2 Contract or Full-time.

Let's talk

Pacific Northwest

born and raised

I grew up on the coast of Pacific Northwest and went to school at the University of Washington. These days I'm on the eastside, in the shadow of the Cascades.

The Emwhit Project

The Emwhit Project

an independent music project.

Solo and self-taught, The Emwhit Project is my music side passion, giving me a way to share my voice. It serves as my creative, expressive outlet, contrasting with with the more logical and problem-oriented world of my career.

Contact

want to connect?

The fastest way to reach me is below.

contact@mattwhitaker.name