Matt Burton
Co-Founder at Be Pivotal Ltd
Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolMatt Burton is a seasoned technology founder and CTO with 17 years building and leading eCommerce platforms and agencies from Middlesbrough, UK. He has repeatedly founded and scaled technology businesses—most recently Aero Commerce, Be Pivotal, and Contona—specialising in eCommerce replatforming, performance audits, and agency-focused open-source platforms. Known for pragmatic engineering, he blends hands-on backend work (including contributions integrating Autofac into the widely used NServiceBus .NET service platform) with strategic leadership of teams of up to 75 people. His work emphasizes secure, fast, and simple-to-use retail systems that balance agency flexibility with retailer needs. Matt’s career shows a pattern of turning platform and hosting expertise into repeatable products and consultancies that help ambitious retailers worldwide. He brings entrepreneurial grit, deep platform experience, and a bias for practical, maintainable solutions.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
South Axholme Epworth
Github Skills (10)
net10
asp-net10
dotnet10
nservicebus10
csharp10
autofac10
dependency-injection10
dotnet-core10
messaging9
distributed-systems9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Particular/NServiceBus
May 2009 - Dec 2010
Build, version, and monitor better microservices with the most powerful service platform for .NET
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:44 commits, 2 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the development of NServiceBus, a .NET-based service platform. Their work centered on integrating Autofac, a popular dependency injection container, into the framework. This involved creating Autofac-specific object builders, configuring components, and enabling the use of Autofac for managing dependencies within NServiceBus applications. The user also updated and refactored the host and sample projects to align with the new container integration.
vertical-slice-architecturec-sharpservice-busdotnetcoretflint
mattburton/beckett
Apr 2024 - Apr 2025
Beckett
Contributions:32 releases, 2 reviews, 102 PRs in 11 months
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