Mathew Carr is a software developer with 11 years' experience based in Wallasey, UK, who specialises in PHP, MySQL and full-stack web development with hands-on experience in HTML, JavaScript and CSS. He has led product development and support at Interconnect IT Ltd, authoring migration tools, user and developer documentation, and acting as the public face for technical support and releases. Earlier work at Sony Computer Entertainment gave him low-level C/C++ experience and discipline in rigorous release schedules for console software. Mathew has a strong background in database migration and reverse-engineering undocumented schemas, and contributed backend improvements to the widely used Search-Replace-DB tool (adding charset, port support and safer delete workflows). He holds a First-class BSc in Computer Games Technology and an MSc with Distinction in Advanced Computer Science, reflecting both practical and advanced academic grounding. Open to on-site roles across Wirral/Liverpool/Chester, he combines production coding with direct client-facing troubleshooting and migration strategy.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MSc, Advanced Computer Science, Distinction, Master of Science - MSc, Advanced Computer Science, Distinction at University of Liverpool
Bachelor of Science with Honours - BSc. (Hons), Computer Games Technology, First, Bachelor of Science with Honours - BSc. (Hons), Computer Games Technology, First at Liverpool John Moores University
This script was made to aid the process of migrating PHP and MySQL based websites. Works with most common CMSes.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:1 release, 31 commits, 30 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Mathew primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the search-replace-db script. Their work involved enhancing database interaction capabilities, including adding support for port number configuration and converting character sets. They also implemented a delete function with a confirmation dialog and incorporated code to handle UTF-8 and UTF-8MB4 encoding. The user demonstrated skills in PHP and database interaction through these modifications.
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