Personal details

Matthew S. - Remote full-stack developer

Matthew S.

Based in: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Timezone: Edinburgh (UTC+1)

Summary

Working for over 9 years in a mixture of consultancies and product based teams I have wide experience across Cloud platforms, technology stacks, leading and mentorship.

Proactive and eager to move things across the line I have spent my career doing what is necessary without worrying about job role, such as QA, BA, DevOps and Design work. If you need a jack of all trades type to help move your projects along, then send me a message and we can build some great things together.

Work Experience

Engineer
San Digital | Sep 2022 - Present
C#
Node.js
Azure
Lambda
TypeScript
Stripe
Terraform
.NET
Next.js
AWS (Amazon Web Services)

Primary consultant on projects running ECommerce, Energy Sustainability, Financial Services.

Leading on solution architecture for Cloud Native, event based applications in AWS, Azure and GCP. Using various tools such as Node/Typescript, C#/.Net, NextJS and React.

Lead development of https://mailintegrate.com, a product we released for email testing.

Created Solar POC app using Google Solar API to plot potential solar configurations as overlay on Google Maps js widget.

Integrated ECommerce solutions using Stripe Payments.

Software Developer/Solutions Architect
Akinova | Dec 2021 - Sep 2022
Java
Node.js
MongoDB
Lambda
TypeScript
React
Kubernetes
Terraform
AWS (Amazon Web Services)

Lead the Software development strategy and technical governance for the business (startup).
Migrated legacy technology stack to Serverless architecture. Moving existing EC2 services to AWS ECS and Cloudfront, significantly reducing cloud costs.
Defined and implemented Serverless architecture strategy for all new applications using AWS Lambda, APIGW, SNS, SQS, Cloudfront and DynamoDB.
Developed front end applications with React, Material UI, component library with Storybook.
Implemented “Microservice style” event driven architecture using SNS, SQS and Lambda.
Migrated all existing cloud resources to be managed by Terraform.
Implemented CI/CD pipelines with Bitbucket for all applications, using Master pipeline/Trunk driven development/Monorepo patterns.
Created BDD style Selenium Grid tests, automating over 100 test cases as part of CI/CD.
Developed back end services using Lambda Node.js + Typescript, Rest APIs and Websockets.
Designed and Implemented SSO solution using AWS Cognito, with addition of “Magic Link” login solution.

Education

University of Birmingham
Master's degreeTheoretical Physics
Sep 2010 - Jun 2014