Summary
Matt Bruton is a Lead Engineer based in Wales with 11 years of hands-on experience building enterprise-grade web platforms and leading high-performing engineering teams. He currently drives major projects at Crowdcube, delivering large-scale, multilingual products and consistently over-delivering on ambitious roadmaps. A lifelong practitioner of rapid development, Matt is the creator and maintainer of Adapt Framework, a PHP MVC framework that he built to automate boilerplate and let developers focus on business logic. His background spans fintech and lending automation—designing fully automated loan processing systems and institution-grade private market platforms—bringing both product sensibility and operational rigor. Comfortable in both leadership and deep technical roles, he blends architecture, delivery and developer experience to make engineering productive and joyful. Colleagues would note his rare alignment of personal passion and professional output: his framework is essentially the distilled form of his career lessons in code.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, 2.1, Software Engineering, 2.1 at The University of Glamorgan
GNVQ Level 3, IT, Distinction, GNVQ Level 3, IT, Distinction at Barry College