Matthew Orres

Software developer. Husband. Father.

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I'm a software developer who loves making great software.

I've been building software professionally for sixteen years, and I still think the job is fundamentally about people. I've shipped at a services shop, at Yahoo Sports, and at Fieldwire — with engineers, designers, PMs, and QA in the room, and users on my mind the whole way.

Still building for real people, still learning from the team around me.

My Skills

Languages

TypeScript and C# are where I've shipped the most. I've also made production contributions to Rust services, and worked in PHP, Ruby, and Java along the way.

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • C#
  • PHP
  • Ruby
  • Rust
  • Java

Frontend

TypeScript is home base. Shipped React and Angular in production, tuned performance down to the repaint, and moved from Figma to deployment without losing fidelity. Framework matters less than the trade-off.

  • Angular
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Redux
  • RxJS
  • Flux
  • PWA

Backend

Greenfield fullstack for ten years, frontend-focused for the last six, and the utility infielder who picked up Rails at Fieldwire when the team needed someone to ship. Stack is secondary to getting work across the finish line.

  • .NET Core
  • Node.JS
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Entity Framework
  • SQL Server
  • MySQL
  • MariaDB
  • Postgres

Cloud & Infrastructure

I've worked across AWS, Azure, and GCP, plus a half-dozen CI systems that changed with the team. I've studied the architecture patterns, and I know what works when things are under pressure. My value is reading the setup, making the right call, and shipping through it.

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Docker
  • Jenkins
  • Bamboo
  • CircleCI
  • GitHub Actions
  • Grafana
  • Splunk
  • Sentry
  • Split.IO
  • Mixpanel

Testing

Playwright for the user journey. Unit tests across the frontend and backend — Jest, Jasmine, RSpec, NUnit. I write tests I'd want someone else to maintain when the bug report arrives.

  • Playwright
  • Jasmine
  • Jest
  • Karma
  • RSpec
  • PHPUnit
  • NUnit

How I Work

Sixteen years taught me what I can't do alone. Accessible by default, documented for humans, and improved through the people I work with.

  • Claude Code
  • GitHub Copilot
  • Agile
  • documentation
  • a11y
  • mentorship
  • collaborative

All the world is my school, and all humanity is my teacher.

George Whitman

My Work

Hoot Draft: Offline Fantasy drafting tool

Hoot Draft

Hoot Draft (formerly PHP Draft) is an open-source fantasy sports draft tool built for SaaS deployment. It lets league commissioners run offline drafts in a presenter-style mode, independent of the in-season platform they use.

Currently migrating the backend from Silex to Symfony's micro-kernel, followed by a modern Angular upgrade. The production server is intentionally offline during the transition. Review the source at Github.

CompareHare: price comparison & notification app

CompareHare

CompareHare is a price-tracking app I built for myself. It watches the utility rates and products I care about, and pings me when something crosses the threshold I've set — originally for electric and gas, expanded to large home appliances in 2022.

I'm currently rewriting the backend in Rust. Not as an exercise, but because I wanted a real system to learn on: scheduled jobs, scrapers, preference matching, and data I actually rely on. The commit history is the point.

Home Lab: where I tinker and build

Home Lab

I built this as both a development sandbox and family infrastructure. It runs Unraid behind my firewall to host Docker containers for CI (Jenkins), databases (MariaDB, Postgres), and web services (Nginx, MQTT, Redis).

On the personal side: a Plex media server, Home Assistant, recipe storage, and Frigate with machine learning tied to security cameras that alert when the mail arrives or someone's on the porch. I test stacks here before anything touches production.