Matt Heath
Engineering (acquired) at Coinbase
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Heath is a delivery-focused engineering leader with 14 years of hands-on experience building highly available distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and payments platforms for fast-growing fintechs. He helped architect and ship core banking and payments integrations at Monzo and was a founding engineer at Starling, leading platform, automation, and migration efforts that scaled into regulated bank operations. More recently he’s applied that expertise to AI infrastructure and autoscaling at Replicate and iterate, and has moved into crypto with a brief stint at echo.xyz before joining Coinbase via acquisition. A pragmatic full-stack technologist, Matt blends low-level systems work (notably deep contributions to Go-based AWS tooling) with product-minded leadership, cross-team communication, and a track record of live, high-stakes launches such as Faster Payments and Monzo US.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Chemistry, BSc Chemistry at University of Leicester
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Github Skills (12)
regular-expression10
apim10
refactoring10
go10
api10
aws10
coffeescript10
testing9
geocoding9
nodejs9
threejs6
magento6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
AdRoll/goamz
Jun 2013 - Mar 2014
Fork of the GOAMZ version developed within Canonical with additional functionality with DynamoDB
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:82 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Matt's commits primarily focused on refactoring and adapting the `goamz` library to support a different service, Hailocab, replacing all references of `crowdmob`. The changes involved modifying import paths, and updating dependencies, indicating a focus on maintaining and adapting the library's internal structure. They also updated various test files throughout the codebase to reflect the name changes and maintain functionality, spanning multiple AWS service integrations.
dynamodb
github/hubot-scripts
Oct 2012 - Jan 2013
DEPRECATED, see https://github.com/github/hubot-scripts/issues/1113 for details - optional scripts for hubot, opt in via hubot-scripts.json
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the `hubot-scripts` repository by modifying the `shipit.coffee` script. Their work focused on refining the regular expressions within the script, enhancing its ability to match various user inputs related to the "ship it" command. They also introduced a geocoding script, `geocodeme.coffee`, to retrieve latitude and longitude coordinates for provided addresses and made minor changes to improve its stability.
hubothubot-script
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