Matt Bessey
Chief Technology Officer at Payaca
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatt Bessey is a hands-on CTO and seasoned software engineer with 13 years’ experience building scalable web and cloud platforms from Bristol, UK. He blends deep full‑stack expertise—frontend, backend and infra—with proven technical leadership, having scaled engineering teams and platform reliability at Immersive Labs where releases, usage and stability all improved substantially under his guidance. Comfortable moving between strategic architecture and digging into performance bottlenecks, he’s founded SRE, DX and Platform Engineering functions and has led acquisition technical due diligence. Colleagues know him as a communicative, extroverted leader who accelerates peers by building developer tooling and processes that measurably increase velocity and reduce change-failure rates. Notably, he has a track record of turning monolith pain points into durable, high-throughput services used by hundreds of thousands of users.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science BSc, Computer Science BSc at University of Bristol
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Github Skills (200)
beautifier10
html10
snapshots10
faraday10
batching10
code-behind10
ruby10
ruby-client10
activerecord10
rake10
emmet10
recycle10
loader10
graphql-client10
graphql10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
bessey/polo
May 2016 - May 2023
Polo travels through your database and creates sample snapshots so you can work with real world data in development.
Contributions:1 PR, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 1 month
snapshotstravelsdatabasereal-world-data
bessey/brillo
Apr 2016 - Mar 2021
Rails database scrubber and loader, for lightweight snapshots of your production DB in development
Contributions:6 reviews, 4 commits, 24 PRs in 5 years
ruby-on-railsraketest-kitchenscrubberrails
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