Summary
Matt Barr is a first-class front-end engineer with over 15 years of experience in development and technical leadership. He has coordinated technical teams and led development efforts for world leaders such as Pokémon, Nordstrom, and Coderpad. His deep understanding of modern front-end architecture makes him an invaluable asset in both personal development of high-value architecture and systems as well as structuring roadmaps and technical planning at an organization level. His energetic gregarious personality is an authentically refreshing trait amongst technical lead engineers of his caliber. He is ready to help take your company's front-end to the next level of performance, usability, and design excellence.
Employment
One Shaka MediaJan 2023 - present
Matt Barr's personal company. He's developed four applications for iOS, web, and Android. Matt has contracted client work for startups in the legal-tech and transportation industries. He has provided professional advertising, web design, voiceover and event hosting work for a variety of clients.
NordstromApr 2022 - Jun 2023
Matt Barr led the development efforts of two teams in the credit and identity spaces, as well as the project that successfully brought credit-card applications in-house. He mentored 4 junior developers and wrote extensive technical documentation including the official documentation on how to write technical documentation for Nordstrom.
Coderpad.ioAug 2021 - Apr 2022
Matt Barr was the lead front-end developer for the core product, the most-used live interview product in the world for software development. He helped add support for new frameworks and languages.
The Pokémon Company InternationalDec 2019 - Aug 2021
Matt Barr led development and architecture of the electron / react app used to run and adjudicate in-person tournaments including the largest in-person gaming event in the world: the Pokémon world championship. He also built several other projects and frameworks for internal and external use.
zulilyNov 2015 - Dec 2019
Matt Barr worked on tools for sellers and internal business teams in Angular, React, and Swift. He mentored junior engineers. He also designed, developed, and deployed a project that raised average product reviews by 0.2 stars and ARR by $16M.
Further employment history is available upon request.
Notable projects
This very resume is a cutting-edge app hand-coded in React, Typescript, NextJS, and Google's Firestore. You can visit the digital version using the QR code in the top-right of the page.
CoderPad is the world leader in coding interviews for software devs. Matt Barr owned, developed, and maintained their core product from 2021-2022.
A beautiful app-based game, available on iOS, Android and web. DATA: Corruption blends advanced web technology and modern game design to make a one-of-a-kind game.
The uber of tour buses. Matt Barr served as lead engineer starting in 2024, planning system designs, developing the web-app, managing the cloud architecture.
A social tool to plan game nights on iOS, web and Android. RaidNight makes use of SSR, React, Next, mobx, contexts, firestore, firebase, and React Native.
Voice over tool featured on the TV show "The Blox". This pet project of Matt's gives voice actors and directors a wide set of high-tech tools to coordinate and promote their projects.
References
Felipe was the senior-most developer to Matt on Nordstrom's credit team. Felipe can speak to the quality and ethic of Matt's work, his depth of knowledge, and ability to lead a team.
Ted managed Matt at the Pokémon company, where Matt was lead front-end engineer on several projects. Ted can speak to Matt's design, architecture, and drive.
Winston was a junior front end engineer who worked on projects under Matt Barr. Winston can speak to Matt's ability to architect for a team, coordinate sprints, and plan teammates' career growth.
Further references are available upon request.