Matt Rognstad

Matt Rognstad is a senior software engineer at Zubie. Matt has been with the company for six years and ten months, during which time they have held the positions of senior software engineer and software engineer. I'm responsible for several AngularJS + Node apps, I maintain and enhance an AngularJS web application.

Prior to joining Zubie, Matt spent seven years and five months at FindLaw, part of Thomson Reuters. There they served as senior front end engineer, senior front end developer, front end engineer, and front end developer. During their time at FindLaw, Matt helped lead a team that served as internal consultants, using agile methodology to build web applications for internal use and create technological solutions spanning FindLaw's product portfolio. Matt was also responsible for adding $3 million worth of recurring social media visibility by devising and coding a robust schema.org structured markup implementation across thousands of blogs. In addition, Matt developed the solution design for a project that reversed a long-standing downward trend in sales and retention in a web product line worth over $14 million in annual revenue.

Some of Matt's other accomplishments include conceiving and building an elegant NodeJS/Express application that allowed non-technical users to quickly make the correct choice in a complex, branching workflow, saving over 15 minutes each time a landing page is added to a site (~250 hours/year); optimizing the load time of responsive templates using a variety of techniques (including a Gulp build process), resulting in improvements of 60% for data transferred, 40% for HTTP requests, and 30% for time required to load a page; and using jQuery, AJAX, and multiple APIs to generate appropriately sized and styled map images from US, CA, and UK address information.

Matt has won numerous awards throughout their career, including the Quarterly award for devoting over 100 hours to User Acceptance Testing for a challenging platform launch, the PACE Performance award for contribution to 301 redirect project, the PACE Customer Focus award for restoring 3 high-profile customer blogs after they were accidentally deleted by a vendor (normal backups were not available), and multiple top-3 finishes at the annual FindLaw Innovation Challenges.

Matt is known for their dedication to process improvement and their ability to increase efficiency and quality through their work. Matt is always looking for ways to improve the systems they work on and is an excellent problem solver.

Matt Rognstad is a graduate of the University of South Dakota, where they earned degrees in political science and communication studies.

The team that Matt Rognstad works with is the IT & Architecture team.