Matt Beaney
Lead Platform Engineer
Maidstone, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Beaney is a Lead Platform Engineer with 9 years of cloud and platform experience, now leading platform efforts at Kraken after driving large-scale cloud transformations for clients including British Airways, Aldermore Bank and Auto Trader. He specialises in AWS-native, serverless and streaming architectures (MSK, Lambda, Step Functions, Redshift Spectrum) and has a track record of turning legacy release processes into highly automated, resilient delivery pipelines. As a people leader he built progression frameworks and coached Cloud Leads to create environments where junior engineers thrive, while also championing CSR initiatives. Behind the scenes he combines hands-on infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and automation with pragmatic operational thinking—once authoring a Go tool to provision Confluent Cloud resources when providers lagged. Based in Maidstone, UK, he blends deep delivery discipline with a focus on observable, data-driven operational improvements.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Mental Health First Aid, Mental Health First Aid at MHFA EnglandTerraform Associate, Terraform Associate at HashicorpAWS Solutions Architect Associate, AWS Solutions Architect Associate at AWS Training & CertificationISEB ITIL v3 Foundation, ISEB ITIL v3 Foundation at QA LtdBTEC GNVQ Advanced IT, BTEC GNVQ Advanced IT at Mid Cheshire College
French
Github Skills (39)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
beaneyios/beaneyios.github.io
Feb 2021 - Mar 2023
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
beaneyios/HandEase
Apr 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:34 pushes, 7 branches in 2 months
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