Matt Knight
Co-Founder & Full-Time Adventurer at Adventurous Way
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Knight is a product-focused technology leader and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience turning complex technical problems into commercially successful products across travel, betting & gaming, and telecoms. He combines hands-on engineering roots in LAMP stacks, CI pipelines and high-performance MySQL with senior product leadership at Expedia/Hotwire where he ran major search, transaction and car rental systems and stepped in as interim head of Product. Trained in theoretical physics, he applies a scientific, hypothesis-driven approach to product discovery and delivery, favouring rapid experimentation and agile methods. Matt has built and led cross-functional Scrum and Kanban teams while shaping delivery strategy and organisational structures to scale product outcomes. Now based in San Francisco, he splits his time co-founding Adventurous Way and documenting a US national parks odyssey—demonstrating a rare blend of operational discipline, creativity and public-facing storytelling. This mix of entrepreneurial drive, technical depth and communication makes him effective at aligning engineering, operations and commercial stakeholders.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Theoretical Physics with Computer Simulation, 2:1, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Theoretical Physics with Computer Simulation, 2:1 at University of YorkA-Levels: Physics (A), Chemistry (A), Maths (A), A-Levels: Physics (A), Chemistry (A), Maths (A) at King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford
Github Skills (131)
mls10
websocket10
file-parser10
rtl-sdr10
hybrid10
monitoring10
signal-processing10
browser10
dbase10
react-framework10
webapp10
compiler10
uptime10
socket-io10
dbf10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
agileoffgrid/esphome
Sep 2020 - Jan 2022
ESPHome Device Configuration
Contributions:5 commits, 7 pushes in 1 year 4 months
esphome
abstractvector/node-dbf
May 2016 - Feb 2021
An efficient dBase DBF file parser written in pure JavaScript
Contributions:18 commits, 7 PRs, 20 pushes in 4 years 9 months
dbasedbffile-parserjavascript
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