David Matthewman
Head Of Engineering at Blis
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDavid Matthewman is a seasoned Head of Engineering based in London with over 15 years of experience building and operating web-scale systems across PHP, Perl and JavaScript, and a background in C/C++ and Java. He combines hands-on engineering — from object-oriented backend design and MySQL/MS SQL schema work to server administration on FreeBSD/Debian — with strategic leadership at Blis where he has run engineering and systems development since 2011. His practical expertise spans full-stack web apps, Ajax front-ends (Prototype/jQuery), and infrastructure services including Exim, BIND, Samba and Apache, enabling rapid delivery and resilient operations. Earlier roles ranged from web management at Sibelius and Xara to running IT and automation for smaller firms, showing a knack for turning manual processes into reliable backend systems. A Cambridge-trained engineer, he brings a long-term view of maintainable architecture and a willingness to dig into low-level code — he still draws on experience as far back as ARM assembler and BBC BASIC when solving tricky problems. Colleagues value his blend of disciplined delivery from magazine-editing days and deep technical breadth across tooling, servers and database platforms.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Engineering, BA, Engineering at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (2)
member3
perl3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dublin2019/client
Nov 2018 - Nov 2021
Contributions:3 PRs, 24 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 11 months
djm4/client
Nov 2021 - Dec 2023
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
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