Christopher Matheson
Contract Software Engineer at Sky
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Matheson is a contract software engineer with 13 years’ experience who transitioned from aerospace and medical hardware design into full‑time software, bringing systems thinking and rigorous QA to cloud and embedded ecosystems. He’s worked across serverless AWS platforms supporting 100k IoT devices at Yoto, led cross‑team subscription and audit-log projects, and contributed backend and test automation improvements to the popular hot-shots Node.js statsd client. Comfortable across front-end SPAs, Node backends and DevOps, he has a track record of rescuing legacy apps, building CI/CD and observability, and troubleshooting production incidents. Pragmatic and curious, he maintains a self-directed curriculum of new languages, patterns and libraries and often toggles between customer‑facing support and deep technical delivery.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh CampusGCSE's, English, Science, Maths, Art, History, German, Design Technology, GCSE's, English, Science, Maths, Art, History, German, Design Technology at Southend High School for Boys
Github Skills (6)
nodejs10
javascript10
statsd10
async9
testing9
asynchronous9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
brightcove/hot-shots
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Node.js client for statsd, DogStatsD, and Telegraf
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer/Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 4 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the `hot-shots` Node.js client by implementing new features and addressing bugs. Their work included the introduction of an `asyncTimer` function for instrumenting asynchronous actions, alongside fixing a nanoseconds to microseconds conversion error. They also added and refined test cases for the timer functionality to ensure its accuracy, reflecting a quality assurance and testing emphasis.
js-clientnode-jsdogstatsdtelegramnodejs
peachproductions/uofs-server
Jan 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 7 PRs, 108 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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