Matt Elphick
Staff Developer at Shopify
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Elphick is a staff developer with 12 years of full-stack experience, currently building developer and product tools at Shopify using Ruby, TypeScript, React/React Native, and GraphQL. He excels at owning the full lifecycle—shaping requirements, shipping code, and monitoring adoption—to deliver practical automation that saves staff time. Previously he led technical efforts at Threads Styling, where he automated workflows and built internal tooling on JavaScript, TypeScript, Koa, Terraform, and AWS. Based in London, he combines deep hands-on engineering with a product-minded view that prioritises usability and operational robustness. Outside work he balances web engineering interests with juggling and gaming, reflecting a pragmatic curiosity and steady focus under pressure. His MSci in Computer Science (First Class) underpins a disciplined approach to designing maintainable systems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Central Sussex CollegeMaster in Science (MSci), Computer Science, First Class Honours, Master in Science (MSci), Computer Science, First Class Honours at Loughborough University
Github Skills (116)
testing10
act10
terraform-module10
api10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
javascript9
angular9
html9
beautifier9
twitch9
serverless9
react-native9
nextjs9
web-components9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
maael/bopsy
Oct 2020 - Aug 2025
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
maael/ffxiv-overlays
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
⚔️ A collection of ACT overlays for FFXIV
Contributions:101 commits, 88 pushes, 2 branches in 13 days
actoverlaysdps-meterffxivffxiv-overlays
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