Matt Hastings
Front-end Developer / DevOps Engineer
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About Me
Hi, my name is Matt. After spending over ten years learning dead languages (languages no one speaks), I decided to learn a few languages that are a little more lucrative. Yes, I can still parse your Ancient Hebrew verbs (or Greek or Akkadian or Aramaic), but you're probably more interested in my skills with ReactJS, SASS/CSS, and JavaScript.
I grew up in South Africa but I've been living and working the USA for over 10 years. I have 13 years of experience in non-profit management. I built and lead teams to complete countless projects.
At the beggining of 2021, my wife got a new job that eventually lead our family to move from South Carolina to Illinois. This move provided me with the opportunity to explore different vocational opportunities. My brother-in-law suggested I learn to code. He sent me a free online bootcamp by Frontend Masters. After completing that bootcamp I was hooked.
I started learning HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. After that, I have focused specifically on ReactJS. I've had a lot of fun building projects and expanding my skills. It's been awesome to get feedback from some senior developers and I'm pumped about the progress I've made.
I have recently gained DevOps skills, working with Docker, Jenkins, Linux, and Groovy. I excited to explore whatever opportunities come my way.
Projects
Featured Projects
Pokédex
Look up all your favorite Pokémon! I built this app to practice working with APIs—fetching data and displaying it with a functional and interactive UI using React. Search for your Favorite Pokémon, explore the evolutionary tree for each Pokémon, or look up all Pokémon of a certain type. This Pokédex is powered by PokéAPI. Check out the app and view the code of GitHub.
Farkel
Farkel is a classic dice rolling, risk taking game. I chose to build a Farkel App because I didn't want to just do the same project that every developer does when learning how to code. I hadn't seen a Farkel App, so I thought it would be a great way to test out what I have learned about JavaScript and React––and ofcourse HTML and CSS/SASS. Check out my GitHub repo to see the code!
