Matt Gibson
Lead Backend Engineer at Cleo
Stroud, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatt Gibson is a Lead Backend Engineer with 14 years of experience building resilient, pragmatic web platforms across startups and the public sector. He combines deep Ruby and JavaScript proficiency with hands-on devops and architecture work—recently shaping modular Rails APIs and microservice patterns that supported rapid scaling to multi‑million pound revenue. As a former tech lead who managed teams of six, he blends people-focused leadership with process improvements like value stream mapping, standardized Docker workflows and practical CI adoption. His background in psychology informs a strong interest in human factors, Lean development and continuous improvement, which he applies to documentation, onboarding and stakeholder collaboration. Notably, he self-taught Elixir to prototype a computer-vision integration that improved packing efficiency, demonstrating curiosity and a bias toward impactful experimentation. Based in Stroud, UK, he thrives on working across the full stack and shipping reliable, maintainable systems.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate diploma Information Systems, Postgraduate diploma Information Systems at The Open UniversityBSc Psychology, BSc Psychology at University of WestminsterPGCE Social Science, PGCE Social Science at University of London
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Github Skills (143)
graphiti10
mvc10
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ruby10
activerecord10
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webstorm10
html10
eventstore10
resque10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
nbudin/htmldiff-lcs
Dec 2013 - Aug 2015
Contributions:33 commits in 1 year 8 months
stringsdifferenceshtml-tagstagsdiff
mattgibson/resque-scheduler-web
Apr 2015 - May 2020
Tabs in the Resque Web gem for the Resque Scheduler plugin.
Contributions:102 commits, 3 PRs, 63 pushes in 5 years 2 months
resque
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