Ash Matadeen
Senior Backend Engineer at Substrakt
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAsh Matadeen is a Senior Backend Engineer with 11+ years of web development experience, steeped in WordPress and PHP and now driving backend work at Substrakt after leading complex projects as WordPress Lead at Fat Beehive. He combines a pragmatic, simplicity-first engineering approach with hands-on mentorship—having guided a dozen developers to more senior roles—and acts as the escalation point for tricky production issues. Ash architected and maintained a Gutenberg-based page builder that materially improved UX and maintainability, and he introduced WordPress to his agency, expanding its technical offerings. A former freelancer who rose through support and projects teams, he pairs client-facing delivery experience with deep operational knowledge of servers and CMS platforms. Now mastering React and exploring AI use cases for web development, he brings a curious, methodical mindset grounded in an MSc in Physics and a background that includes safety consulting at AREVA.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Physics and Technology of Nuclear Reactors, MSc, Physics and Technology of Nuclear Reactors at University of Birmingham
Github Skills (28)
oop10
wordpress-themes10
wordpress10
template-engine10
php10
twig10
timber10
ssh8
multistage8
proxy8
woocommerce8
ecommerce7
devops7
docker-image7
automation7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ashmatadeen/dotfiles
Apr 2015 - Dec 2020
Contributions:14 pushes in 5 years 9 months
ashmatadeen/no-captcha
Aug 2015 - Jun 2017
Google noCAPTCHA reCAPTCHA for WordPress
Contributions:24 commits, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 10 months
recaptchawordpress
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