Matt Hanley
Engineering Manager at ZOE
Bridgwater, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatt Hanley is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience leading software and infrastructure teams through growth-stage challenges, most recently at ZOE and previously at Ghost where he helped scale revenue and headcount while guiding major architectural decisions. He combines hands-on full-stack and DevOps expertise—from front-end contributions to the Ghost publishing platform to building container platforms and CI/CD pipelines—with empathetic people leadership and coaching. Comfortable in remote, globally distributed teams, he focuses on reducing technical debt, improving test coverage, and aligning engineering practices with product roadmaps. A math graduate from the University of Bath, he brings a pragmatic systems-thinking approach and a knack for shipping measurable improvements such as webp image support, Stripe webhook integrations, and UI fixes in prominent open-source projects.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Mathematics, BSc, Mathematics at University of Bath
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Github Skills (21)
relationship10
cms10
javascript10
microblogging10
ghost10
ember10
blogpost10
stripe-api10
webhooks9
back-end-development9
laravel9
css9
front-end-development9
php9
nodejs9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
TryGhost/Ghost
Jul 2020 - Jun 2022
Independent technology for modern publishing, memberships, subscriptions and newsletters.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:259 reviews, 87 commits, 103 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Matt contributed to various aspects of the Ghost publishing platform. Their work includes fixing currency display issues in the subscription settings, adding a Stripe webhook listener for subscription events, and modifying a date helper for locale-based date string formatting. Furthermore, the user added support for webp image formats, which demonstrates an understanding of image processing and API integration. The user also addressed minor UI-related improvements such as fixing the edit redirect for authors and updating the wording on the unsubscribe confirmation.
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TryGhost/Admin
Jul 2020 - May 2022
Ghost's admin client
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 11 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the Ghost admin client by modifying and updating various front-end components. Their work included fixing issues related to currency display in subscription settings, updating the image uploader to accept webp images, and modifying the user interface with relative sign-in URLs and billing links. Furthermore, the user addressed an issue with the activity feed formatting and integrated changes from a merged version.
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