Available for hire

Matthew
Hudson

Engineering director in New York. I lead teams that ship high-performance Next.js platforms at scale, deploying on Vercel. Currently at Code & Theory, leading projects for The Minnesota Star Tribune and RealClearMedia. Previously at Condé Nast, shipping products across The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Bon Appétit, and Epicurious. Plus stints at Betaworks and SeatGeek.

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SKILLS

  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Vercel

Frontend Architecture

Building performant, accessible web applications at scale. SSR, ISR, React Server Components, and the component systems that tie them together.

  • Team Building
  • Mentoring
  • Architecture
  • Strategy

Engineering Leadership

Growing teams from 5 to 30+, shipping products on time, driving technical strategy across organizations.

  • Web Vitals
  • Lighthouse
  • Edge/CDN
  • SpeedCurve

Performance Engineering

Core Web Vitals optimization, edge caching, and load time reduction that move the needle on business metrics.

  • Vercel
  • Node.js
  • Serverless
  • GraphQL

Platform & DX

CI/CD pipelines, preview deployments, and developer experience that lets teams ship with confidence.

CAREER

Code & Theory

2023 – Present — Engineering Director, Media Experience
  • Directed ~30 engineers, PMs, and designers across time zones for the Minnesota Star Tribune rebrand & replatform on Next.js/Vercel
  • RealClearMedia: Leading company-wide modernization onto Next.js/Vercel/PayloadCMS
  • RealClearPolling: Migrated from legacy PHP to Contentful + Next.js/Vercel with Lighthouse/SpeedCurve CI gates ahead of 2024 election
  • Partnering with newsroom editors on an AI-augmented white-label CMS initiative
  • Star Tribune relaunch recognized by Shorty Awards, Fast Company, and SND
+35%
Digital subscription growth
3→1
DevOps team size
80→90+
Core Web Vitals score
  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Vercel
  • PayloadCMS
  • Contentful

Pager

2021 – 2023 — Engineering Manager
  • Led Next.js/React platform for patient care navigation at a >$100M-funded company (NEA, Lux, Goodwater, Horizon BCBS)
  • Implemented design system + CI quality gates (Storybook, ESLint, Sonar)
  • Cut UI delivery cycle ~40% and lifted patient engagement ~25%
-40%
UI delivery cycle
+25%
Patient engagement
$100M+
Company funding
  • Next.js
  • React
  • Node.js
  • Storybook
  • GraphQL

Condé Nast

2015 – 2018 — Engineering Manager → Engineering Director
  • Managed managers, led 25–30 engineers across Bon Appétit, Traveler, Epicurious, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair
  • Vanity Fair 'Trump tweet' response: operationalized rapid technical response, 13K new subs in 24 hours — a ~100× day and a CN record
  • Drove VF page performance from ~25 → 80–90 PageSpeed; tripled paid subs YoY via coordinated paywall + perf work
  • Orchestrated internal web performance efforts, disseminating learnings department-wide with 25% improvement across brands
13K
Subs in 24 hours
25→90
PageSpeed score
3×
Paid sub growth YoY
  • React
  • Node.js
  • GraphQL
  • AWS
  • Fastly

Betaworks

2013 – 2015 — Senior Engineer → Engineering Director → Interim CTO
  • Kandu (kids app creator): Led engineering through $2.4M betaworks-led seed round; shipped iPad no-code creation experience
  • AlphaWorks (equity crowdfunding): Stabilized engineering through leadership transition; launched with co-investment from Founder Collective, OATV, Box Group
$2.4M
Seed round raised
CTO
Interim leadership
  • Node.js
  • iOS
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • AWS

SeatGeek

2013 — Senior Frontend Engineer
  • Early engineer at ~10 employees; built core seat maps, event discovery, and checkout UX impacting conversion during high-traffic events
  • Co-developed Sixpack, an open-source A/B testing framework widely adopted beyond SeatGeek
$1B+
Valuation (IPO 2022)
1.7K★
Sixpack GitHub stars
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • Flask
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis

RECOGNITION

15+
Years Experience
12+
Industry Awards
8+
Major Launches
$100M+
Products

Press

How Conde Nast Used Node.js to Unify BrandsNodeSource
Break the News, Not the SiteVercel
Conde Nast and OptimizelyOptimizely
The New Yorker's Paywall SuccessPoynter

OPEN SOURCE

matthewhudson/current-device

The easiest way to write conditional CSS and/or JavaScript based on device operating system, orientation, and type.

import device from 'current-device'
 
if (device.mobile()) {
addClass('mobile')
}
JavaScript
3.9k
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matthewhudson/githooks.com

A simple guide to the wonders of Git Hooks.

// .git/hooks/pre-commit
#!/bin/sh
 
npm test
eslint src/ --fix
HTML
223
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matthewhudson/pxon

A JavaScript module for importing, creating, manipulating, and exporting PXON schema.

type Pixel = {
x: number
y: number
color: string
}
JavaScript
26
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matthewhudson/words

JS module for generating words from characters. An anagram generator for Letterpress, Words with Friends, and Scrabble.

import words from 'words'
 
const anagrams = words('hello')
// ['hello', 'holle', ...]
JavaScript
28
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sixpack/sixpack

Sixpack is a language-agnostic A/B testing framework.

from sixpack.server import Experiment
 
exp = Experiment("cta-color")
alt = exp.participate()
Python
1.8k
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~ cd github.com/matthewhudson
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