Mat Kastner is a Senior Manager of Engineering based in Cardiff with a decade of hands-on experience delivering pragmatic, user-focused software across startups and enterprise teams. He progressed from graduate software engineer at BT—where he introduced Scrum and Git and worked on real-time telemetry for Land Rover BAR—to leadership roles at DabApps and Certn, blending technical depth (Node.js, Python, C#, AWS) with people management. Passionate about Agile practices, he prioritises simplicity and usability while guiding teams to ship reliable services and improve engineering workflows. Notably, he has a track record of implementing tooling and process changes that scale teams as well as contributions to both front-end and backend systems.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School GCSEs, High School GCSEs at John Mason School
High School BTEC National Diploma in Information Technology, High School BTEC National Diploma in Information Technology at Abingdon & Witney College
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at University of Plymouth
Contributions:2 releases, 27 PRs, 64 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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Mat Kastner - Senior Manager, Engineering at Certn