Matt Harker
Lead Software Engineer at Faculty
St Albans, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Harker is a Lead Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building rich, responsive full‑stack web applications and guiding engineering squads from prototype to heavy deployment. He combines deep front‑end expertise (React, web components, modern JS) with backend and geospatial API work, having improved ingest/query performance and developer ergonomics at General System. Known for crafting product vision into award‑winning user experiences, he also mentors and upskills teams to remove blockers and ship reliably. His background in mathematics and low‑level languages informs a pragmatic, performance‑minded approach to complex UI and real‑time systems (WebRTC, Socket.io). Based in St Albans, he brings a track record of turning ambitious web capabilities into production systems that meet demanding speed and usability requirements.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics & Computer Sciences Computer Sciences (Java C ASM) Mathematics (Number Theory), Mathematics & Computer Sciences Computer Sciences (Java C ASM) Mathematics (Number Theory) at Lancaster University
English
Github Skills (68)
mapbox-gl10
mapbox-gl-js10
frontend10
javascript9
jquery9
file-api9
cordova9
cordova-ios9
react9
webgl9
data-visualization8
parser8
docker-desktop8
bounding8
user-interface8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
TeaSeaLancs/train-timeline
Dec 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:74 commits, 4 PRs, 66 pushes in 6 months
pebbletimelinetraincommute
Allinthedata/inject-loader
Dec 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:9 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 1 month
webpack-pluginbabeldependencieswebpack-loaderjavascript
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