Matt Elphick
Staff Developer at Shopify
London, England, United Kingdom
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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 (156)
testing10
act10
api10
angular10
typescript10
vue10
webpack10
react10
javascript9
html9
beautifier9
component-library9
oclif9
react-native9
nextjs9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
maael/template-repository-usage-action
Sep 2020 - Apr 2022
A GitHub action to automatically update a template repository README with a list of repos that used it in an organisation.
Contributions:4 releases, 3 reviews, 54 commits in 1 year 7 months
update
maael/neutralinojs-react-tailwind-template
Oct 2021 - Aug 2022
A template for Neutralino.js apps with React and Tailwind.
Contributions:1 release, 6 commits, 2 PRs in 9 months
reacttailwindcsstailwindneutralinojsjs-apps
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