Engineering Departments

Our team members share a variety of skills, so we wear a lot of hats. However, this also allows us to become the local expert for specific specializations. Below are the specializations (departments) within the Matchbox engineering team.

  • Management
  • Security
  • DevOps
  • Accessibility
  • Development
  • Quality
  • Maintenance
  • Support

Meet The Engineering Team

DevOps

In addition to the LEMP stack, we use the following languages and tools for the majority of our projects

  • Asana – Project management, sprint planning
  • GitLab – Git repository, issues, merge requests, CI pipelines
  • Cloudflare – DNS management
  • Codacy – Code quality
  • Cypress – End-to-end (E2E) testing
  • Mailgun – Transactional mail service
  • Homebrew – Package Management for the Mac
  • Composer – PHP dependency manager
  • Node – JavaScript runtime
  • NPM – Node package manager

WordPress Theme & Plugin Development

  • WordPress – Open source software you can use to create a beautiful website, blog, or app
  • Gather fuel – A fork of the Bedrock by Roots with a little Matchbox flavor added
  • Ignite – A fork of Sage by Roots with all the bells and whistles we’ve perfected over the years
  • ACF – Custom field creation
  • Gravity Forms – Form builder

Laravel Development

  • Laravel – Web application framework
  • Laravel Shift – Automated Laravel (and Tailwind) upgrades
  • Algolia – AI-powered search index
  • Nova – Admin panel for Laravel
  • SpinupWP – Cloud-based server control panel

GUIs To Make Our Lives Easier

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