Matthew Grill
I live in San Diego, CA and work at DocuSign. I tweet, take pictures, make funny gifs, and release code. 🐍
Contact
- email: hi@matthewgrill.com
Resume
DocuSign : Senior Software Engineer February 2019 — Current
Acquia : Senior Javascript Engineer June 2016 — December 2018
- Drupal 8 JavaScript subsystem maintainer
- Migrate Drupal 8 to ES6 standards and adopt AirBnB ESLint standards. Fixing over 7,000 errors in the process.
- Lead the initiative to adopt React for new administrative UI's.
Four Kitchens : Engineer July 2013 — June 2016
- NBC Worked with a team to develop the third version of NBC’s web API; powering their desktop/mobile and application platforms. Developed a Node.JS server backed by a native C++ extension to generate thumbnails for the recent NBC Roku application. One million plus requests per day, with response times in the 5ms range. Built platform to support universal search on Roku, Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV.
- TWiT.tv Developed a custom framework in Node.JS to support a headless Drupal approach to site building. Designed and developed a REST API for communication between Node.JS and Drupal. Implemented a high-performance caching layer with Redis.
- Entertainment Weekly/Time Inc. Worked on the migration of nearly 500k documents from Wordpress and Vignette 6. Designed and implemented an optimized advertising rendering pipeline. Global JavaScript refactor to increase overall page performance.
- CNN/Turner Broadcasting Worked in a team augmentation capability to assist with the development of their new site. Specifically spearheaded the implementation of shareable client/server templates. Owned the creation of the weather system.
San Diego Gas & Electric : Senior Developer March 2008 — June 2013
Launched three completely different versions of their site. I led a team to build a new version of SDGE.com utilizing Drupal, launching in November of 2011.
I worked with other internal development teams to deploy a real-time outage map, anemometer dashboard, mobile specific version of our account and bill-pay systems, and highly available weekly energy consumption graph generator.
Community
- Drupal 8 JavaScript Maintainer
- Drupal JavaScript modernization Initiative
- DevOps Track Chair, DrupalCon Austin 2014
Speaking
- Drupal Admin UI — DrupalCon Seattle (Seattle, WA; April 10, 2019) with Lauri Eskola (lauriii), Cristina Chumillas (ckrina), Daniel Wehner (dawehner), and Sally Young (justafish)
- Design a decoupled application - An architecture guide based upon the Drupal admin UI — DrupalCon Seattle (Seattle, WA; April 11, 2019) with Daniel Wehner (dawehner), and Sally Young (justafish)
- JavaScript Modernisation Initiative — Drupal Europe (Darmstadt, Germany; September 13, 2018) with Lauri Eskola (lauriii), Cristina Chumillas (ckrina), Daniel Wehner (dawehner), and Sally Young (justafish)
- JavaScript Modernisation Initiative — DrupalCon Nashville (Nashville, TN; April 12, 2018) with Sally Young (justafish) and Angie Byron (webchick)
- Decoupled from the Inside Out — DrupalCon Baltimore (Baltimore, MD; April 26, 2017) with Sally Young (justafish) and Preston So (prestonso)
- Core JavaScript Modernization Efforts — Drupal Developer Days Seville (Seville, Spain; March 25, 2017)
- JavaScript Unit Testing — DrupalCon Dublin (Dublin, Ireland; September 28, 2016)
- The Great Consolidation: Entertainment Weekly Migration Case Study —
- DrupalCon Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA; May 13, 2015) with Jon Peck (fluxsauce) and Preston So (prestonso)
- SANDCamp (San Diego, CA; February 27, 2015) with Jon Peck (fluxsauce) and Patrick Coffey (pcoffey)
- Building and Deploying Drupal with Gulp and Docker — SANDCamp (San Diego, CA; February 28, 2015) with Patrick Coffey (pcoffey)
- Headless Drupal Reference Implementation: Lessons Learned —
- Docker <3 Drupal SANDCamp (San Diego, CA; January 24, 2014)
Projects
- Gif — Automatically collect gifs from git commits and other locations. React, S3