Mathew Robinson
Platform Engineer
Hove, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMathew Robinson is a platform engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building automation, CI systems, and reliable production infrastructure across companies from MongoDB to fast-growing UK startups. He combines deep Linux and FOSS enthusiasm with practical DevOps and build-engineering chops—contributing backend improvements to MongoDB’s Evergreen CI and optimizing the MongoDB build system for faster, more reliable compiles. He’s led SRE and platform teams at MPB and Tillo, driving site reliability, automation, and tooling while also maintaining Homebrew formulas to keep MongoDB installs up to date for macOS users. Based in Hove, Mathew blends systems-level thinking with developer-focused tooling, and is known for quietly improving developer experience through better logging, CLI UX, and build automation.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree Computer Information Systems - Network Engineering, Associate's degree Computer Information Systems - Network Engineering at Sinclair Community College
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Github Skills (31)
api-rest10
api-design10
restful-api10
command-line-interface10
mongodb-database10
homebrew10
go10
build-automation10
command-line10
rest-api10
macos10
mongodb10
cli10
c-language9
configuration-management9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/homebrew-brew
Jul 2019 - Dec 2019
The Official MongoDB Software Homebrew Tap
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:8 commits, 27 PRs, 23 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Mathew's primary contributions involve modifying and maintaining Homebrew formulas for the MongoDB community edition. Their work focused on updating the formulas to support different MongoDB versions (3.2, 3.4, 3.6, 4.0, and 4.2) and ensuring compatibility with macOS. The commits reflect changes to the download URLs and SHA256 checksums for the MongoDB packages. These updates were crucial for ensuring the Homebrew tap provided accurate and up-to-date installations of MongoDB.
homebrewhomebrew-tapmongodb
mongodb/mongo
Sep 2017 - Mar 2020
The MongoDB Database
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer / Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer / Automation EngineerContributions:268 commits, 5 PRs, 183 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Mathew contributed to the project by modifying the Ninja build system within the MongoDB repository. Their changes primarily focused on improving the efficiency and correctness of the build process, including implementing response files for compiler commands, and modifying existing build actions. These improvements likely enhanced build performance and reliability. The commits demonstrate a focus on build automation and optimization.
nosqlc-plus-plusmongodb-databasedatabasemongodb
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