Matt Cowley
Growth Engineer at Grafana Labs
Beaconsfield, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolMatt Cowley is a Growth Engineer and open-source maintainer with 11 years' experience building web platforms, community tools, and developer-facing infrastructure. He blends front-end craftsmanship (HTML, CSS/SCSS, JavaScript, Vue) with back-end work in PHP and Python, and has contributed to high-profile projects like discord.js and cdnjs, improving core functionality and UX. At DigitalOcean and now Grafana Labs and Node.js, he has led cross-functional teams, shipped production features, and managed community platforms that scale. Beyond code, he’s a community-first operator who runs and supports user groups and brings stagecraft precision from years as a theatre technician to coordination and ops. He’s also the night-shift open-source engineer behind AlveusGG, demonstrating an ongoing commitment to public-facing projects and tooling.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Mathematics Business Studies, Computer Science Mathematics Business Studies at Royal Grammar School High WycombeBSc Computing Computer Science, BSc Computing Computer Science at University of Buckingham
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (64)
unit-testing10
javascript10
messaging10
back-end-development10
python10
discord-js10
discord10
testing10
css10
ui-design10
sharding10
message-system10
mongodb-database10
ruby10
message-handler10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
digitalocean/nginxconfig.io
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
⚙️ NGINX config generator on steroids 💉
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:270 reviews, 202 commits, 253 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Matt implemented and refactored frontend components for an NGINX configuration generator. They introduced a new data system, refactored domain configuration tabs, and added various options such as Docker tweaks, language selection, and HSTS settings. The user's changes involved creating and integrating new UI elements within the Vue.js frontend and setting up more advanced features within the Nginx configuration tool.
nginxreverse-proxygzipsecurity-headershttpd
Hacktoberfest/hacktoberfest-2020
Sep 2019 - Nov 2020
Hacktoberfest - App to manage the annual open source challenge.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:214 reviews, 373 commits, 219 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the back-end of the Hacktoberfest application. Their commits focused on modifying and updating files, including a service-level ruby file, and updating paths in the shared header. The user also made changes to the front-end, including updating the page title. They also fixed code issues, added content, and updated the display of events.
cssjavascript
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