Matthew J. Sorenson
Mentor
(23 reviews)
US$20.00
For every 15 mins
50
Sessions/Jobs
ABOUT ME
Programmer of Applications
Programmer of Applications
I engineer peace of mind.
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I work with individual self-starters, entrepreneurs, small teams, and companies who desire to struggle less with web technologies, software lifecycle management, and custom business applications.
I bring experience spanning two decades in software engineering and information technology, where-in I have implemented a wide variety of technologies and platforms for my clients – from individual entrepreneurs to small startups, larger firms, and fortune 1000 companies. I am also active as a mentor and coach to individual peers and teams.
I emphasize and evangelize open source, observable process, and transparency. I have the most experience with the web platform including top javascript frameworks like Vuejs and React, leading backend frameworks such as Laravel, Drupal, Elixir, and Express, various database technologies, many API projects and integrations, and cloud or multi-cloud deployments and strategies.
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English
Central Time (US & Canada) (-05:00)
Joined July 2016
EXPERTISE
15 years experience | 1 endorsement
My experience with PHP over a decade and a half spans at least a half dozen of the top PHP frameworks, and also a few framework-less or f...
My experience with PHP over a decade and a half spans at least a half dozen of the top PHP frameworks, and also a few framework-less or from scratch projects, too. The majority of my experience in recent years is with Drupal and Laravel web applications and some command line utilities.
5 years experience | 14 endorsements
I've built or rebuilt several web applications leveraging Laravel. In all instances, I also am completing the setup of the entire project...
I've built or rebuilt several web applications leveraging Laravel. In all instances, I also am completing the setup of the entire project lifecycle support systems and infrastructure: source code management, architecture, roadmaps and task tracking, bug reporting, continuous delivery, and hosting, DNS, security, and so on and so forth.
I either know how to do it well, or I know how to figure it out :)
2 years experience
Htmx (and hyperscript) is the refreshingly sane and simple alternative to the javascript framework swamp of recent years. I appreciate Ja...
Htmx (and hyperscript) is the refreshingly sane and simple alternative to the javascript framework swamp of recent years. I appreciate Javascript very much, and have worked with it successfully for nearly two decades. However I'm not alone in recognizing that frameworks such as reactjs and vue.js are far too heavily pushed on new devs and web projects. Everything old is new again, and as a community, we can do better. Ask me how htmx can benefit your project or work.
15 years experience | 5 endorsements
"Semantics" was a concept that instantly clicked with me, from my earliest days learning and working with html and those unwieldy cascadi...
"Semantics" was a concept that instantly clicked with me, from my earliest days learning and working with html and those unwieldy cascading style sheets. TopStyle, an authoring tool by Nick Bradbury, taught me the ins and outs of CSS.
I love these technologies together, they offer a lot of power, but I'll be the first to confess that fine design and layouts never got to be one of my strengths... I've said this another way... that I am a much better student of the /science/ of css, than the art of css.
9 years experience | 4 endorsements
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I took to Javascript right away; I landed a contract gig in 2005, and a few weeks in it became clear that the other eng...
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I took to Javascript right away; I landed a contract gig in 2005, and a few weeks in it became clear that the other engineers didn't care for it much, but someone had to do it... so I did it. I became the resident expert. It was a period during which we adopted prototype & scriptaculous. I had an affinity for the dojo toolkit.
I was a late-adopter to jQuery - I thought it was the trendy framework that would come and go, and prototype would outlast it. Then I began using it and forgot about prototype :)
Obviously the scene has exploded in the past 5 years, and like most of us, I'm trying my best to keep up!
3 years experience | 2 endorsements
I've gained experience with Vuejs in web applications of varying degrees of complexity and with a couple of different back-end setups, in...
I've gained experience with Vuejs in web applications of varying degrees of complexity and with a couple of different back-end setups, including Laravel-powered JSON web api's (REST and GraphQL styles), Nuxtjs, public API's, and API's backed by cloud functions (aka serverless).
I'm comfortable working on applications having just a few Vuejs enhancements or plugins, on up to front-ends built entirely with Vue and web components.
6 years experience | 1 endorsement
REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS
(23 reviews)
Scott Pannan
December 2023
Very knowledgeable and also very patient. Great experience.
jbirch8865
June 2023
Easy to follow and a great listener.
Henrik Nordstrom
April 2023
Very knowledgeable! Fixed my JS issues quickly and answered all the questions I had.
Ryan
August 2021
Excellent! Thank you for your help!
James Sandoval
June 2021
Matthew is a very skilled and resourceful developer and was great from the beginning. He went above and beyond what was required and we're looking forward to working with him again. Highly recommended.
Ryan
June 2021
Very Quick and effieicent. Walked through problem and was able to fix immediately.
Albert Jordaan
November 2020
extraordinarily skilled and communication was excellent. Very good guy and very knowledgeable. Will be coming back to him if I need to ever learn anything PHP or Laravel related.
Kevin Overtoom
June 2020
Very knowledgable mentor. Clear communication skills and goes the extra mile when helping you.
Koenraad Rodbjartson Herber
March 2020
Matt was terrific, he was polite, kind and understood my issues. He solved my problem quite quickly, in an elegant manner. I recommend using Matt as your mentor.
everett bond
January 2020
Matt is a beast!
EMPLOYMENTS
Senior Engineer
Gravity Payments
2020-09-01-2022-10-01
Senior Software Engineer on the Gravity Portals product team
Senior Software Engineer on the Gravity Portals product team
PHP
MySQL
JavaScript
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PHP
MySQL
JavaScript
LAMP Stack
AWS (Amazon Web Services)
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PROJECTS
HaggleView Project
2022
A side hustle / greenfield project taking shape; marketplace concepts.
A side hustle / greenfield project taking shape; marketplace concepts.
PHP
MySQL
JavaScript
PHP
MySQL
JavaScript