Matt Humphrey
Head Of Technology at DRC
United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarMatt Humphrey is a pragmatic technology leader with 14 years of hands-on software and product experience, currently heading technology at DRC and previously leading product development at Windsor Telecom. He combines full-stack development chops—particularly PHP API-driven backends and modern front-end frameworks like Vue/React—with strategic delivery: migrating legacy systems to cloud/Office365, introducing CI/CD, and launching single sign-on and hosted telephony products. As a former CTO and co-founder of multiple startups, he has shipped customer-facing platforms that scaled to high volumes and executed successful exits. An active open-source contributor, he’s helped improve PHP GitLab and GitHub API clients, demonstrating a knack for plumbing complex integrations. Colleagues value his ability to turn legacy monoliths into maintainable API-first architectures while mentoring engineers into senior roles.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
English
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Github Skills (17)
gitlab-api10
apidoc10
php10
api10
github-api10
error-handling10
testing9
wordpress9
gitlab8
api-client8
e-mail6
sql6
linebreak6
pinterest6
magento6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
GitLabPHP/Client
Nov 2012 - Jan 2018
GitLab API v4 client for PHP
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 169 commits, 47 PRs in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Matt's commits primarily focused on building the GitLab API v4 client for PHP. They implemented core functionalities, including HTTP client and request/response handling, as demonstrated by the `HttpClient`, `Client`, and `HttpClientInterface` file modifications. The user also added support for user authentication, project, and issue management. This includes additions for creating, updating, and deleting data, as well as handling repositories, merge requests, and snippets through the GitLab API.
gitlab-apiphpgitlabhttplugapi-client
KnpLabs/php-github-api
Nov 2012 - Nov 2012
A simple PHP GitHub API client, Object Oriented, tested and documented.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 13 days
Contributions summary:Matt contributed to the `knplabs/php-github-api` repository by addressing errors within the API client, specifically handling custom error messages returned by GitHub. They also implemented features such as adding options to add repositories to organizations. Further contributions involved adding parameters to the `put()` method and fixing a URL within the organization teams API. The user also fixed a test case related to the teams show method.
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