Matt Gross

Codes for Jesus

Curriculum Vitae


Tesla

November 2018 - Current

Sr. Software Engineer (Front End)

  • Tesla Design SystemCurrent

    Team-lead: Rebuild the team after the June 2022 purge of remote workers removed 80% of staff. Scale and overhaul infrastructure for ease of maintenance by a small team.

    Collaborate with designers & engineers on re-usable components, patterns, and tools to support teams across Tesla.

    Advocate for excellent & accessible experiences that can be interacted with via multiple interfaces.

    Provide feedback to designers on modularity & flexibility of design patterns, and design micro-interactions for the digital ecosystem around products like Cybertruck.

    Owned TDS React (component library) as first

    Highlights

    • 2022 Team Reconstruction
      Management, Architecture
    • 2022 Dropdown Patterns
      Components, Collab, Lead
    • 2021/2022 Global tesla.com Navigation
      Components, Collab, Lead
  • Configurator & Inventory

    Collaborate with design & engineering teams to design & prototype new experiences in vehicle configuration.

    Work with a team to iterate on, collaboratively build and maintain the parts tesla.com related to selling new & used vehicles, principally inventory search & details systems.

    Own the Inventory Search & Details UI for 2019, allowing customers to browse for vehicles, then view photos, specs, and details of any vehicle currently for sale at Tesla.

    Highlights

    • 2021 Intl Packages
      Infrastructure, Standards, Lead
    • 2020 Configurator App Redesign
      Redesign, UX, Collab
    • 2019 Cybertruck Launch
      UX, Microinteractions, Collab
    • 2019 Inventory App Redesign
      Redesign, UX, Collab
  • Aquisitions & Used Inventory

    My first team at Tesla, we created the tesla.com vehicle trade-in experience from scratch, and owned the user experience when shopping for used Teslas.


University of WashingtonBothell

September 2017 - June 2018

Student

High-intensity replacement for a BS in Computer Science

Coursework

  • CSS 501: Object Oriented Programming I
    C++, Linked Lists, Binary Trees, Formal Logic
  • CSS 502: Object Oriented Programming II
    C++, Significant Figures, N-ary Trees, Data-Structures
  • CSS 503: Systems Programming
    C++, Linux, Processor Architecture, Networking
  • CSS 506: Software Development Processes
    Waterfall (gasp!), Scrum, Kanban
  • CSS 507: Software Modeling Techniques
    User Research, Requirements Gathering
  • CSS 508: Software Testing & Quality
    Measures of Success, A/B Tesing, DevOps

Projects

  • Re-Engineer: 80 Character Punchcards
  • Re-Engineer: Binary-Coded Decimal as a Linked List
  • Recursion: Solve Sudoku via Brute Force
  • Alphabetical In-Context Concordance
  • Polynomial Math
  • Binary Search Trees
  • Graphs: Shortest Distances
  • Data-Architecture: Media-Retreival System
  • Process Architecture: Forks vs Threads
  • Multi-threading: Barbers Problem
  • Filesystem I/O: Buffer Management
  • Networking: Relays and Receivers

EvenVision

May 2012 - November 2018
  1. Lead Front-End Engineer

    I worked at the intersection of design & development in a variety of environments, taught & mentored new staff, and designed the tools & components the rest of the team use every day.

    That means that I also worked with our clients to best understand their needs and how we could improve the outcome of our projects over time.

    Projects

    • EV Common Tools
      Themes, D7/D8 Boilerplate, Project Management Utils
    • EvenVision.com
      Website, Brand Development
    • Ingomar Club
      Website
    • ArtSpan & San Francisco Open Studios
      Website
    • Estancia Ranquilco
      Website
    • Cathy’s Power Skating
      Website
    • Jacobzoon & Associates
      Website
    • Singing Tree Gardens Nursery
      Website, Brand Creation
    • Humboldt Fasteners & Tools
      Website
    • Orchids for the People
      Website, Brand Creation
    • Faith of the Fathers
      Website
  2. Lead Web & UI Developer

    Build rich, smooth, useful tools from the ground up, both for clients and for their customers.

    I gradually moved from a junior web designer to the lead front-end developer, working principally on the most complex & interactive components of our projects.

    Projects

    • Lost Coast Brewery
      Website
    • Pacific Builders
      Website
    • Humboldt Botanical Gardens
      Website
    • McKinleyville Family Resource Center
      Website, Brand Creation
    • A Woman’s Path
      Website
    • Johnson Mobile Rentals
      Website
    • Sunny Brae Church
      Website, Brand Creation
    • RMI Outdoors
      Website
    • Maui Sod Farm
      Website
    • North Coast Property Management
      Website
    • Anthony Mantova
      Website, City-Council Campaign
    • Housing Humboldt
      Website
    • Arcata Zen Group
      Website
    • Cafe Brio & Brio Baking
      Website
    • Mantova’s Two Street Music
      Website
    • FAAN | Families Advocating Autism Now
      Website
    • Arcata Economic Development Corp.
      Website
    • Visual Concepts
      Website
    • Housing Humboldt
      Website
    • Humboldt Termite & Pest Control
      Website, Brand Creation
    • Humboldt Builders Exchange
      Website
    • Give the Chance
      Website
    • California Baptist Foundation
      Website
    • SoCal Baptist Ministries
      Website
    • Redwood Empire Printing & Design
      Website
    • Emerald City Laundry
      Website
  3. Web Developer

    Design & build client marketing websites, from concept to completion, as well as Work with business owners to understand needs, capabilities, and define project scopes.

    Spearhead EvenVision’s transition from Fixed-Width to Responsive web development.

    Projects

    • Redwood Coast Prosperity
      Website, Branding, Data-Visualization
    • Phyl'n Cold-Pressed Juice
      Website
    • Pacific Mindfulness
      Website
    • Wildberries Market
      Blog Microsite
    • Patty Stearns Real Estate
      Website
    • Redwood Region Economic Development Commission
      Website
    • Northcoast Horticulture Supply
      Website
    • HumFresh
      Website
    • Essential Elements Spa
      Website, Brand Creation
    • Trinidad Bluffs
      Website
    • Chapala Cafe
      Website
    • Sequoia Humane Society
      Website
    • LACO Associates
      Website
    • Curb Appeal Construction
      Website
    • Trinidad Trading Company
      Website
    • Jacoby Creek Land Trust
      Website
    • Redwood Parks Conservancy
      Website
    • New Heart Community Church
      Website
    • Redwood Glass & Windows
      Website
    • Cafe Nooner
      Website
  4. Graphic & Web Designer

    After freelancing for a time, and spending every waking hour learning everything I could, I went to work with EvenVision as a graphic & web designer, making neat things from business cards to mockups in Illustrator to handling the styling & basic dev on websites.

    Projects

    • Jessicurl
      Website
    • Cunningham, Malone & Morton
      Website
    • Callahan Pickups
      Website, Brand Creation
    • Cloud B
      Blog Microsite
    • Tika Imports
      Website
    • Arcata Sunrise Rotary Club
      Website
    • Humboldt State University | English Dept.
      Website
    • Wendt Construction
      Blog Microsite
    • Shred Aware
      Website
    • Humboldt Folklife
      Website

Sunny Brae Church

2009 - 2017

A/V Tech Lead

Live mixing for Worship music, recording, processing audio (especially sermon recordings) and developing visual accompaniment for songs and events.

Serving at my home church, every Sunday. Basically just show up and do anything technical, as well as train others to support with slides and A/V Recording as needed :)


Freelance

2012 - 2014

Early freelance work, including a variety of small projects & favors for friends

Projects

  • Ryan Filgas Photography
    Logo, Business Cards, Website
  • DMC Home Construction
    Web Design
  • Jazz at the Graves
    Event Invites
  • Scotia Band
    Postcard Design

Holiday Inn Express

May 2012 - June 2013

Front-Desk Agent

Fresh out of undergrad, armed with a BA in Economics, I faced the reality that I needed to learn how to answer a phone :)


Humboldt State University

September 2009 - December 2011

Student

Bachelor of Arts: Economics & Rural Economic Development

Tutored for ECON 311: Intermediate Macroeconomics

Coursework

  • GEOG 360: Geography of World Economics
  • MUS 361: Music Tech: Recording & Playback
  • NAS 306: Native People of North America
  • PSCI 303: Third World Politics
  • ECON 310: Intermediate Microtheory & Strategy
  • ECON 470: Sustainable Rural Economic Development
  • ECON 490: Capstone
  • BIOL 304: Human Genetics
  • BA 415: International Business Essentials
  • ECON 306: Economics of the Developing World
  • ECON 435: Principles of Money & Banking
  • ECON 305: International Economics & Globalization
  • ECON 323: Economic History of the US
  • GERM 106: German Level II
  • HIST 375: US Foreign Relations 1943-Present
  • BA 332: Intermediate Business Statistics
  • CIS 130: Intro to Programming
  • ECON 311: Intermediate Macroeconomics
  • GERM 305: Marx, Nietzche, Freud & German Literature
  • MATH 109: Calculus 1

College of the Redwoods

September 2006 - June 2009

Student

Concurrent with Academy of the Redwoods (High School)


Academy of the Redwoods

September 2005 - June 2009

Student

Concurrent with College of the Redwoods (Community College)

Got my AA Degree the day before my High-School Diploma