Matt Calvert
Director at Miff Ventures Ltd
Salford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorMatt Calvert is a director-level engineering leader based in Salford with over 17 years of hands-on experience in systems architecture, infrastructure and product delivery, and a decade of focused experience in reliability and DevOps roles. He has led teams and strategic projects—introducing Kubernetes, GitOps, Helm, Teleport and container migrations—while also shipping code in Python, PHP and Go to automate repeatable deployments. Comfortable bridging customer-facing solution design and internal platform strategy, he has delivered triple-site active-active architectures and self-service telemetry for capacity and performance. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he added a SafeDNS provider to the widely used lexicon DNS library with tests and robust error handling. Known for clear communication and pragmatic decision-making, he thrives on turning complex, high-availability requirements into auditable, automated solutions.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Spanish, English
Github Skills (7)
api10
dns10
python10
apidoc10
back-end-development10
http-request10
test-automation9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
AnalogJ/lexicon
Jun 2019 - Mar 2020
Manipulate DNS records on various DNS providers in a standardized way.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 13 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on implementing a new DNS provider integration for SafeDNS, which involved writing code to interact with its API. They added the SafeDNS provider, implemented functionalities for listing, creating, updating, and deleting DNS records. The user also incorporated error handling, authentication, and unit tests. Additionally, the user updated the project's test suite and related configuration files.
pypiyandexconstellixgandilexicon
miff2000/kubespray
Sep 2020 - Feb 2021
Deploy a Production Ready Kubernetes Cluster
Contributions:79 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
helmproduction-readydockerk8skubernetes
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