About
Matthew Fender is a software engineer and engineering leader. His work has focused on application architecture, product-minded software delivery, team building, and the standards and habits that help engineers do good work.
Interests
- Command & Control systems that dominate the battlefield
- Technical leadership, coaching, and career development
- Team standards, accessibility, and useful engineering constraints
- Product roadmapping, focused work, and healthy engineering culture
Selected Work
- Anduril — Part of the team that took Ghost from 0 to 1.
- Campin — co-founded and led engineering for a camping discovery app
- GlobalXplorer — architected a Webby-nominated science-yielding app
Writing
- The Eponymous Laws of Tech, April 12, 2018
- Webby Award Nominations, April 3, 2018
- Give 40, Take 0, March 15, 2017
- Meetings are Expensive, March 1, 2017
- From Engineer to Manager, February 15, 2017
- Remy Sharp on React Server Side Rendering, December 15, 2016
- Understanding Zones and Change Detection in Angular 2, September 6, 2016
- Effective Technical Leadership, July 13, 2016
- Better 1:1's, July 13, 2016
- A Primer on Giving Critical Feedback, June 1, 2016
- Deadlines, May 18, 2016
- Freakonomics: How to Be More Productive, May 11, 2016
- Measure Twice, Cut Once, May 4, 2016
- Pivotal Experience, April 20, 2016
- Google ReWork, April 13, 2016
- Team Standards Solve Problems, November 20, 2014
- Coding Cocktail, April 30, 2014
- Run / Code, April 26, 2014
- Code and Thoughts, April 25, 2014