Matt Hamlin's Resume
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Staff Software Engineer - Strong technical leader in the frontend web development space, passionate about building the best possible web user experiences and the teams that support them
Boston MA, 02114(425) 210-0980
matthewjameshamlin@gmail.com
https://matthamlin.me
Experience
Wayfair, Boston MA β Frontend Platform Tech Lead
June 2021 - PresentLead the Frontend Platform team at Wayfair, supporting our customer, supplier, and internal facing experiences and teams.
- Was the lead architect for a frontend-replatforming effort to adopt Next.js, React Server Components, and GraphQL Federation
- Designed and implemented various aspects of our overall frontend web architecture (tracking, data-fetching orchestration, Authentication, web monorepo tooling)
Wayfair, Boston MA β Design Systems Tech Lead
2017 - June 2021Worked with a small team of frontend engineers and designers to build, and maintain our Design Systems, as well as three internal component libraries for our storefront, internal, and supplier-facing websites.
- Built out various iterations of our internal Design System component library and documentation site, supporting live demos and an editable sandbox
Wayfair, Boston MA β Frontend Software Engineer
July 2016 - July 2017Worked with several teams to ship new design features and fix various bugs across the Wayfair website and its affiliated brands (All Modern, Joss and Main, Birch Lane, Perigold).
- I was one of the first developers to start adopting React internally, and rebuilt several key features on site
Education
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY β B.S. Information Technology and Web Science
August 2012 - May 2016Graduated in the top 15 students of my major, taking classes that provided insight to building user-friendly experiences on the web and also focused on the newest web development standards.
Projects
Inline-MDX.macroβ A Babel macro for authoring and transforming mdx
One of my first babel macros, I built this to quickly compose MDX inline within another file for use within our design system documentation site.
https://github.com/hamlim/inline-mdx.macroSimple Propsβ A minimal, css variable backed style-prop library for [p]react
A CSS-in-JS library that allows you to build a system-prop-like API using plain old CSS Custom Properties (variables).
https://github.com/ds-pack/simple-propsRainbow Sprinkles β Dynamic, theme-driven, style props for Vanilla Extract
I contributed to this open source library authored by one of my friends and coworkers for building style primitives within Vanilla Extract.
https://github.com/wayfair/rainbow-sprinklesProgramming Languages, Libraries, and Runtimes
Programming Languages
TypeScript (and JavaScript), GraphQL, CSS (including SCSS), HTML, PHP, and Go.
Libraries and Runtimes:
Node.js, Deno, Bun, React and ReactDOM, Next.js, webpack, Babel, Jest, Cypress, Docker, Kubernetes (with Istio and Flagger), Vanilla Extract, Tailwind, Styled Components, GraphQL (with Apollo Client), Yarn, PNPM, and Turborepo.