Matt Girdler

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, data science and user-centered design. My hobbies include football (playing, watching and analysing), game development and pixel art.

I’m currently working as a Technical Consultant at CACI Ltd in Plymouth, UK.

Here are a few technologies I've been working with recently:

Python
Terraform
Snowflake
Streamlit
AWS
Azure
R/Shiny

Experience

CACI Ltd (formerly Rowe IT)
Plymouth Argyle
HM Land Registry

Technical Consultant - CACI Ltd (formerly 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:

Lead developer in Met Office Bulk Data publishing team. Developed flexible data pipeline enabling publication of datasets to open data initiatives.
Developed CI/CD pipelines in AWS CodePipeline and Azure DevOps, including automated deployment of infrastructure of code.
Implementing enterprise network architecture for West of England Combined Authority Travel Data Hub.
Leading R&D team in organisational capability building activities.
Maintaining ArcGIS Enterprise deployment, implementing multi-site server for resilience.
Using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Cloudformation and CDK to provision and manage varous cloud services.

Volunteer Data Analyst - Plymouth Argyle

December 2023 - Present

Helping the data team to build reliable tools, enabling easy presentation of key metrics to coaching staff and supporting the club’s long term sustainability efforts. Developing and maintaining multiple recruitment tools using R, Shiny, ggplot and Plotly.

Developed a Wyscout Player Ranking dasboard utilising player data and Plymouth Argyle’s own player ranking model. Added scatter, radar and swarm plot visualisations for player metrics.
Developed a Target Monitoring dashboard with easy filtering, sorting and highlighting of scout report data.
Developed a rolling average data visualisation tool to identify trends in team/player performance using Statsbomb metrics.

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.