Matt Hunt
Founder at Folly Factory Ltd
Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarMatt Hunt is a Staff Software Engineer based in Newport, Wales, with 11 years of experience building distributed, event-driven systems and cloud-native platforms. He has led engineering teams from startup to scale—architecting an event-sourced banking platform at Zero Fintech with sub-hour code-to-production and zero data loss using CQRS and messaging patterns. Comfortable across DevOps, C#, Azure, microservices and CI/CD, he frequently pairs hands-on development with hiring, mentoring and process design to accelerate delivery. His background spans fintech, communications APIs and large consumer platforms, plus developer advocacy work maintaining a .NET SDK and speaking at events across Europe. An active open-source contributor, he’s fixed nuanced GeoJSON (de)serialization bugs and added tests to improve geospatial correctness in a popular .NET library. He co-founded .NET Cardiff and enjoys turning complex distributed problems into reliable, observable systems.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
unit-testing10
deserialization10
json10
data-serialization10
csharp10
geojson10
dotnet-core10
serialization10
aspnet-web-api6
asp-net6
asp-net-mvc6
kiosk-mode6
android6
kiosk6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
GeoJSON-Net/GeoJSON.Net
Nov 2014 - Oct 2022
.Net library for GeoJSON types & corresponding Json.Net (de)serializers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 1 review, 36 commits in 8 years
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to fixing deserialization issues related to CRS (Coordinate Reference System) in FeatureCollection objects. They added unit tests to validate the CRS deserialization and serialization processes. Furthermore, they implemented a serialization test for FeatureCollection and addressed bugs to ensure the correct handling of various GeoJSON object types, focusing on the correct implementation of geometry and coordinate reference systems within the library.
dotnetgeojson
GeoJSON-Net/GeoJSON.Text
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
.Net library for GeoJSON types & corresponding System.TExt.Json (de)serializers
Contributions:3 releases, 18 reviews, 30 commits in 11 months
dotnetgeojson
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