Matt Machell
Senior Technical Architect at Eclectic Dreams
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorMatt Machell is a Senior Technical Architect with 14 years of experience designing and delivering web products, currently shaping digital services at the UK Ministry of Justice. He blends deep hands-on development and architecture skills from long tenures in public sector and enterprise software with a practical eye for accessibility and user-focused interfaces. Beyond his day job he runs a smallpress publishing business and freelances as a web author and consultant, bringing storytelling and documentation strengths to technical projects. An experienced technical editor and trainer, he routinely translates complex requirements into clear, maintainable systems and accessible experiences. Based in Birmingham, he pairs steady delivery in large organisations with creative side‑projects—most notably self-published tabletop games—that keep his design instincts sharp.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
German
Github Skills (74)
sketchup10
vcenter10
slack-bot9
cdktf9
guardian9
serve9
sirius9
opc9
endpoint-security9
terraform8
terraform-provider8
incident-management7
terragrunt7
incident-response7
ministry6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ministryofjustice/opg-response
Oct 2022 - Aug 2024
Fork of Monzo's real-time incident response and reporting tool ⚡️
Contributions:8 reviews, 14 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 10 months
mattmachell/ta-playbooks
Jan 2021 - Jan 2024
A set of tools and patterns to use as an agile Technical Architect
Contributions:5 PRs, 29 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years
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