Matt Chadburn
Product Director - Specialist Titles at Financial Times
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorMatt Chadburn is a product and technology leader with 14 years of experience modernising major news organisations, currently directing specialist titles at the Financial Times. He blends hands-on engineering pedigree—leading platform rebuilds at FT.com, The Guardian and the BBC—with product strategy and organisational transformation across multi-site teams. Known for scaling teams (from small squads to ~100 people) and reshaping delivery and vendor practices, he pairs operational accountability with data-driven product thinking. He has a track record of turning legacy stacks into reusable platforms, initiating multi-year “intelligence products” projects and aligning US–UK technology collaborations. Passionate about diversity and inclusion, he consistently builds high-performing, diverse teams and has delivered measurable operational and cost efficiencies. Outside product leadership he applies practical campaign and compliance experience from political volunteering, showing a taste for complex, real-world problem solving.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (149)
origami10
guardian10
counter10
axis9
currency-exchange-rates9
expressjs9
currency-converter9
js-client9
keen-io8
api8
javascript8
analytics-api8
xapi8
build-server8
bootstrapping8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Financial-Times/next-assets
Feb 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:10 PRs, 10 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 11 months
assetsnextjsstatic-assets
commuterjoy/experiments
Apr 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:63 commits in 16 days
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