Summary
Matt Fisher is a experienced technology leader and CTO based in Leeds with 15 years building and scaling product-focused engineering teams and cloud-native systems. He combines hands-on full-stack and DevOps expertise—ranging from HapiJS microservices, Kubernetes and Terraform to Ruby/Rails and bespoke game tooling—with operational leadership across startups and studios. As founder of Candidate Code he turned recruitment workflows into a SaaS, and in prior roles he drove CI/CD, QA automation libraries and capacity-planning processes that improved delivery predictability. Comfortable switching between code, architecture and people management, he is particularly skilled at turning complex legacy stacks into maintainable, testable platforms. His background in physics informs a data-driven approach to estimation, risk and resource planning.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Physics (MPhys) Physics, Master of Physics (MPhys) Physics at University of York