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Matthew McNaughton

Backend Engineer

// kingston, jm · UTC-5

Building in the open from Jamaica. Backend Engineer.

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Scouting report

Jamaican civic-tech veteran — RHoK DC hackathon winner

assessed from open-source footprint

Senior
58signal

Matthew is a 15-year backend dev with a civic-tech streak: ShowMeTheMoney won RHoK DC in 2012 (4★) and he built the Jamaica OpenData Initiative site (4★). The clear caveat is dormancy — zero commits in the last year and a 0.83 abandonment ratio, so this is past glory more than current momentum. Strong domain instincts for government/open-data work if he's re-engaging.

Authorship & open source

Solo authorwrote 100% of commits on OpenData-Site
5 merged PRs0 commits / yr

What they build

Backend62%
Frontend31%
Mobile7%

Industry experience

  • Web & CMS
  • Government & Civic

Signal breakdown

Originality58
Impact63
Consistency58
Polish50
Stars

11

top repo 4

Original repos

6

33% forks

Followers

26

On GitHub

15.7 yr

Live demos

4

Activity

Active

83% stale

Strengths

  • Verified author — wrote 100% of commits on OpenData-Site
  • Original builder — 6 of their own repositories
  • Ships to production — 4 live demos
  • Backend focus with Frontend
  • Domain experience in Web & CMS & Government & Civic
  • Core stack: JavaScript, D, Java, PHP

About

Backend Engineer from Jamaica, active on GitHub with 9 public repositories and 26 followers. Explore the work and reach out on GitHub.

Skills

  • JavaScript
  • PHP
  • Java
  • D

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