Matt Coulter
Senior Portfolio Architect at Liberty IT
Belfast Metropolitan Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatt Coulter is a Senior Portfolio Architect and AWS Hero based in Belfast who specialises in serverless-first architectures and developer experience at scale. With a strong background in Java, JavaScript, Python and AI, he drives engineering practice improvements, CI/CD and trunk-based development across large enterprises to enable thousands of engineers. He authors and maintains the popular open-source cdkpatterns project, translating proven AWS serverless patterns into TypeScript and Python implementations to help teams accelerate cloud adoption. Matt combines hands-on infrastructure work—modernising CDK patterns, Lambda integrations and RDS credentials—with strategic leadership in High Performance Engineering and SDLC evolution. Known for pragmatic, event-driven designs and a focus on measurable impact, he blends UX sensitivity with cloud-native operational rigor.
6 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Meng Computer Science Computer Science, Meng Computer Science Computer Science at Queen's University BelfastBelfast High School
Github Skills (14)
serverless10
aws-cdk10
python10
aws9
aac9
aws-cloudformation9
infrastructure-as-code9
lambda-functions8
api-gateway8
typescript-types7
typescript7
typescripts7
dockers3
docker3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cdk-patterns/serverless
Jan 2020 - Jan 2021
This is intended to be a repo containing all of the official AWS Serverless architecture patterns built with CDK for developers to use. All patterns come in Typescript and Python with the exported CloudFormation also included.
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 193 commits, 163 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on migrating Python-based patterns to use `requirements.txt` for dependency management. They also made several updates to leverage newer AWS CDK integrations such as HttpApi and added updates for the updated versions of CDK itself. Additionally, they updated several stacks to include the newest version of the lambda power tuner and made corrections to include http integrations and RDS credentials. These changes indicate a focus on modernizing and maintaining the serverless infrastructure and related tools.
pythonserverlessaws-lambdaarchitecture-patternsaws-serverless-architecture
cdk-patterns/cdk-patterns
Jul 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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