Hi! My name is

Matt.

I build things for the web

A passionate full-stack software engineer, I enjoy exploring emerging technology, collaborating with others and building robust services that focus on the user first.

Résumé

About Me

I’m a software engineer with a passion for innovation. I have a background in computer science and a special interest in CI/CD, cloud computing and user-centered design. My hobbies include football, game development, pixel art and music.

I’m currently working as a Technical Consultant at Rowe IT in Plymouth, UK.

Here are a few technologies I've been working with recently:
  • Python
  • Terraform
  • AWS
  • Cloudformation
  • Azure
  • Node
  • React

Experience

Technical Consultant - Rowe IT
April 2021 - Present

Roles fulfilled:
  January 2023 - Present (Technical Consultant)
  April 2021 - December 2022 (Senior Software Engineer)

Consulting with various public bodies, helping them to build secure, resilient and cost-effective services. The clients I’ve worked with include:

  • Met Office
  • West of England Combined Authority
  • Transport for Greater Manchester
  • Ministry of Defence
  • UK Hydrographic Office
  • Forestry Commission
  • Crown Commercial Services
  • Scottish Qualification Authority.

My achievements include:

  • Designing, developing and maintaining a payment processing system utilising AWS Serverless architecture.
  • Implementing enterprise network architecture for a travel data hub service.
  • Leading R&D team capability-building activities.
  • Maintaining and implementing disaster recovery solution for ArcGIS Enterprise deployment.
  • Using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Cloudformation and CDK to provision and manage cloud environments.
Senior Software Engineer - HM Land Registry
September 2014 - March 2021
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Roles fulfilled:
  February 2018 - April 2021 (Senior Software Developer)
  September 2015 - January 2018 (Software Developer)   September 2014 - August 2015 (IT Student Placement)

I began my career at HM Land Registry as a placement student. I gained a wide range of experience working across different teams and departments, from Data Warehousing to Security Admin, before eventually settling into my passion of Software Development.

  • Tech Lead for Casework Workflow system.
  • Lead developer for research and development project, Digital Street.
  • Senior developer for a knowledge management system.
  • Full-stack developer for Head Office file management system.
  • Frontend developer for the Local Land Charges service.
  • IT Student Placement - Security Admin, ETL teams.

Education

2012 - 2016
BSc (Hons) Computing
University of Plymouth
Bachelor’s degree in Computing, specialising in software development, web development and software design.
2010 - 2012
Level 3 BTEC Computing and Games Development
City College Plymouth
First introduction to software development and user-centered design.

Projects

Social Rebels
Python Django Bootstrap JavaScript
Social Rebels
A custom e-Commerce website, developed with the Wagtail Python framework.
Social Rebels
Untitled Web3 Project
Solidity Web3 React NestJS Tailwind
Untitled Web3 Project
A Web3 application, consisting of Solidity smart contracts, React frontend and NestJS REST API.

Achievements

AWS Solutions Architect (Associate)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Microsoft Certified - Azure Fundamentals
Microsoft Azure
Corda Certified Developer
R3
Foundation Certificate in Agile
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
ISO/IEC 20000 Masterclass
Codewars - 3kyu
Reached rank 3kyu on Codewars