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mathewleland/README.md

👋 Hi, I'm Mathew Leland

Welcome to my GitHub! I'm a Senior Software Engineer with 6+ years of experience delivering impactful web applications from concept to production. I love building scalable, user-centric solutions and fostering collaborative, ownership-driven engineering cultures.

🚀 About Me

  • Current Focus: Independent consulting, helping clients rapidly prototype and launch robust cloud-hosted web apps.
  • Previous: Software Engineer II at CLEAR, where I built and scaled identity verification platforms serving millions of users at LinkedIn, Avis, Home Depot, and more.
  • Strengths: Turning complex product requirements into actionable technical designs, writing maintainable and testable code, and proactively improving team processes and culture.
  • Passionate About: Shipping high-quality code, simplifying user experiences, and mentoring engineers to grow their skills and impact.

🛠️ Tech Stack

Languages:
JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Ruby

Frontend:
React, Next.js, Tailwind, HTML5/CSS3

Backend:
Node.js, NestJS, AWS (Lambda, S3, SES), Supabase, Firebase

DevOps:
Docker, Terraform, GitHub Actions, CI/CD Pipelines

Testing:
Cypress, Jest, React Testing Library, Selenium

Other:
GraphQL, REST APIs, Internationalization (i18n), A/B testing & Analytics, Micro-frontend, Serverless, SPA architectures

🏆 Career Highlights

  • Launched an app from 0 to 2MM+ users: Built CLEAR's identity verification solution in a browser as team's founding engineer on greenfield project. Partnered with companies like LinkedIn, Avis, Uber, and The Home Depot to provide high assurance on identity within a mobile browser.
  • Hackathon Winner: Prototyped a seamless, privacy-first face-capture flow; recognized in multiple company and AWS hackathons.
  • Mentorship & Collaboration: Helped junior engineers earn promotions, presented demos to leadership, and standardized design systems and CI/CD workflows across teams.
  • Open Source: Author of Export SVG with Styles, a popular NPM package for exporting styled SVG elements to PNG.

📚 Education

  • Neuroscience Graduate Program, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  • B.S. Neurobiology, Macalester College

📫 Let’s Connect

I’m always excited to collaborate on interesting projects or discuss new opportunities!

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  1. export-svg-with-styles export-svg-with-styles Public

    Extract your d3 charts or svg images WITH their styling 🌈

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  2. drop-and-drag-gifs drop-and-drag-gifs Public

    A project to play around with React's drag and drop features

    JavaScript

  3. game-of-life game-of-life Public

    Conway's game of life made in React.js

    JavaScript

  4. react-scatterplot react-scatterplot Public

    Use the HTML5 canvas to render a scatterplot within a react component

    JavaScript

  5. react-form react-form Public

    See the demo here (hosting site takes a little bit to start up):

    JavaScript

  6. orphankittenproject.github.io orphankittenproject.github.io Public

    The Orphan Kitten Project website, with org's Facebook feed on home page.

    CSS