# Matthew Hand

> Senior Software Engineer at Fieldguide

Location: New Market, Maryland, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/matthewhand

Senior Software Engineer specializing in front end development. I have a passion for tackling hard problems, building great software, and creating new solutions to scale product services.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Fieldguide
Jan 2023 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ VTS
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023

### Sr. Software Engineer @ Higher Logic
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
Team Role:
    • Cross-functional team lead, driving company wide adoption of component library and other 
       shared frontend packages.
    • Onboard new team members to bring them up to speed.
    • Mentor junior developers on the team.
    • Continuously research and vet the latest technologies and best practices to adopt in the team’s 
      tech stack.

Projects:
    • Component Library
        Spearheaded the launch and development of company’s first internal React component library 
        leading to cross-team design consistency and increased efficiency.

        Architected monorepo with multiple shared frontend packages, resulting in increased developer 
        productivity.

       Built and maintained CLI package for build scripts using webpack.

       Explored and adopted use of Artifactory to host private packages, allowing for reduced hosting 
       costs as well as increased company security against NPM registry downtime.

    • Unified Admin Platform
        Architected frontend SPA using webpack, React, and TypeScript that integrated four admin 
        platforms and allowed multiple teams to work simultaneously with minimal conflicts.

        Implemented CLI tools such as plop to automate repetitive developer actions to increase 
        efficiency.

        Integrated tools such as Sentry to detect and address bugs before clients report them.

    • Subscription Management
        Built a multi-step drag and drop form tool allowing support personnel to create custom 
        subscription management pages for clients in order to free up a full-time developer from  
        supporting this service.

### Frontend Developer @ Real Magnet
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
(Real Magnet acquired by Higher Logic in 2017)
  
Developed, implemented, tested, and deployed new campaigns, page interfaces, and reporting pages for primary marketing automation platform.

Migrated original code base from AMD to webpack resulting in enhanced visibility into dependencies, easier upgradability, and reduced page size for optimal performance.

Re-architected existing reporting framework to new TypeScript structure for improved data visualization.

### Research Data Coordinator @ Johns Hopkins University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
Created user interfaces in FileMaker for research coordinators to enter participant data.

Facilitated migration to direct participant data entry, resulting in increased efficiency and increased data entry accuracy.

### Research Program Assistant @ Johns Hopkins University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014

### Human Resources Intern @ CohnReznick LLP
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013


## Education
### Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Program
Hack Reactor
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016

### Clinical Psychology
Loyola University Maryland
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014

### Bachelor of Arts in Psychology
Loyola University Maryland
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mmhand123

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Last updated: 2026-03-22