Matt Leach
Senior Software Engineer - Frontend at Hargreaves Lansdown
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Leach is a Senior Frontend Engineer based in London with 11 years’ experience building high-performance web and mobile apps using React, TypeScript, and React Native. He has led major projects for brands like Reward Gateway and Bumble, including a multi-tenant SPA serving over 8 million users and a site-wide internationalisation rollout. Comfortable owning end-to-end delivery, he’s integrated payments, third-party APIs (Amazon, Twilio, OneSignal), and built supporting backends and dashboards with Next.js. Matt combines a strong eye for design collaboration and clean code with hands-on mentoring, having grown multiple junior engineers across teams. He also contributes backend improvements to open-source API clients, demonstrating fluency across front- and back-end domains. Outside work he brings unusual scale leadership experience from managing large regional teams and events, a background that informs his team-building and stakeholder skills.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Cheam High School
Stackoverflow
869reputation
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Github Skills (15)
api10
python10
apidoc10
testing10
modeling9
modello9
modeler9
chat6
ajax6
css6
repeat6
bash6
curl6
handlebars6
enzyme6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
stravalib/stravalib
Jan 2015 - Mar 2016
Library to provide simple client interface to Strava's REST API (v3).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 12 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on extending the Stravalib library to interact with the Strava API. They implemented new functionality for retrieving related activities and added a related property to the Activity model. They also addressed issues related to deprecation and added functionality to include segment efforts when retrieving activity data. The user also improved the model by adding athlete stats.
apipythonapi-v3stravagpx
matt-leach/django-strava-auth
Jan 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:25 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
apistravaapi-authenticationauthenticationstrava-api
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