Matt Schick

Software Engineer | he/him

Summary

Frontend developer with fullstack experience. 20 years in the industry. Equal parts mentor and technical leader.

Recent Work Experience (see LinkedIn for full)

Ride with GPS, Senior Software Engineer

  • Built 3D mapping for all surfaces on the Web.
  • Designed and built a stateless TypeScript/Node service that brought AI coding agents into pull request reviews.
Nov 2025 – Oct 2026

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.
Nov 2024 – Nov 2025

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, updating core dependencies 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, and improving DX
Nov 2018 – Jun 2024

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
Aug 2018 – Nov 2018

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
Nov 2015 – Dec 2017

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
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016

Education

BA

Columbia College Chicago, Interactive Arts and Media

2003 – 2008

Skills

Technologies: Typescript, NodeJS, React, Python, RTL, AWS, Jest, Webpack