Matt Hunt
Staff Software Engineer at Paytently
Newport, Wales, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatt 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
18 years of employment as a software developer
West Mon, Wales
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Github Skills (14)
unit-testing10
json10
deserialization10
data-serialization10
csharp10
geojson10
dotnet-core10
serialization10
aspnet-web-api6
asp-net6
asp-net-mvc6
kiosk-mode6
android6
kiosk6
Programming languages (13)
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.
net-libraryserializersgeojson-typesjson-netjson
matt-lethargic/MattsWorld.Stations
Jan 2018 - Dec 2022
Station import PoC
Contributions:7 PRs, 10 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 11 months
stationpoc
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