Welcome! I'm Matt.

I'm a Colorado-based web developer with over 20 years of experience on the web, and almost 15 years of that spent designing and building SaaS applications.

Before my web development journey, I had a stint as an environmental engineer while touring in a rock band. In 2006, I turned to web development and started my own company focused on non-profit organizations. Building SaaS apps became the focus in 2011, when Community Funded, an online fundraising platform for non-profits and higher education, brought me on as the first hire to architect and build the platform. It was a bit of everything: design, dev, sales, customer calls. What mattered most was knowing the product genuinely helped the teams behind the scenes, in addition to the donors on the front end. Integrating systems that varied from client to client was always a fun puzzle. Even better was hearing what customers actually needed and building solutions that fit their workflow, not the other way around.

These days the focus is on making applications that just work: from tools that help machine shops manage their parts and analyze efficiency, to Linkrail (currently in beta), a web analytics platform built to be dead simple to understand. The through-line is the same: taking complicated problems and turning them into solutions that feel easy.

Sharing what I've picked up along the way matters to me. Software gets better when the people building it support each other. The hope is that something here sparks a developer to think holistically and stay curious beyond the immediate task.

✌️ Matt