Mat Walker
Senior Product Manager at Ministry of Justice Digital & Technology
North Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMat Walker is a Senior Product Manager with 17 years’ experience helping public and non-profit organisations turn data-driven insight and Lean practice into elegant, user-focused digital products. Currently at Ministry of Justice Digital & Technology, he has a strong track record from Cancer Research UK where he led multiple complex product areas—site search, CMS, events and core sites—introducing technologies like ElasticSearch and React and migrating high-profile event platforms. He excels at aligning large stakeholder groups, establishing release rhythms that deliver consistent value, and guiding teams through lifecycle-stage challenges. Mat’s background in theatre and media informs a user-centred storytelling approach to product strategy, and a period as a full-time parent underscores his practical empathy and resilience in balancing priorities.
17 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA. (Hons), Theatre, Film and Television, 2.1, BA. (Hons), Theatre, Film and Television, 2.1 at University of Leeds
Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
ministryofjustice/find-moj-data-runbooks
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
Find MoJ data runbooks • This repository is defined and managed in Terraform
Contributions:74 reviews, 38 PRs, 41 pushes in 11 months
data-cataloguedata-platformministryofjustice
alphagov/gds-tech-learning-pathway
Aug 2016 - Dec 2018
Guidance on learning and development for GDS Technologists
Contributions:117 commits, 67 PRs, 109 pushes in 2 years 5 months
guidancelearning-and-developmentgds
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