Matt Keen
Principal Engineer at First AML
Amber Valley, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatt Keen is a Principal Engineer with a decade of experience building and scaling fintech SaaS platforms, currently leading technical strategy at First AML. He moved from first technical hire to staff and now principal roles, specializing in solving organizational and technical scaling challenges while promoting developer growth through standards, internal training, and cross-team tooling. Comfortable across back-end, front-end and cloud-native migrations, he has hands-on experience breaking monoliths into services and improving operability for systems handling multi‑TB datasets. Based in Amber Valley, UK, he combines the pragmatism of a startup operator with a people-first leadership philosophy—he blogs occasionally about building healthy engineering cultures at mgkeen.com. Notably, his background in biochemistry (Imperial College) underpins a methodical approach to problem solving that surfaces in both architecture and team processes.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) 2:1, Biochemistry, BSc (Hons) 2:1, Biochemistry at Imperial College London
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Github Skills (124)
testing10
proxy10
chaos10
sql-script10
tcp10
dbup9
api9
browser-extension9
go9
database8
dotnet8
databases8
graphiql8
docker8
resiliency8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mgkeen/api-examples
Feb 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:6 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year
apiimplementations
mgkeen/magicWeaponShop
Aug 2018 - Sep 2018
A kata designed to encourage writing flexible tests
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
testingkataflexible
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