Matt Patterson
Software Engineer at Saxonica Ltd
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarMatt Patterson is a seasoned software engineer with 18 years’ experience designing, building and leading teams to deliver well-crafted web applications across the full stack. Based in Birmingham, he combines deep domain modelling and technical architecture skills with hands-on development, testing and CI/CD improvements—evidenced by substantive contributions to the JRuby project where he improved string handling, test coverage and migrated CI to GitHub Actions. He has blended entrepreneurial and consultancy experience as a self-employed technical strategist and previous CTO/Director roles, helping organisations translate complex requirements into reliable, testable systems. Known for pragmatic leadership and attention to detail, he often bridges the gap between backend models and client-side information architecture to ship robust, maintainable products.
18 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
650reputation
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6answers
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Github Skills (20)
github-ci10
strings10
testing10
text-manipulation10
cicd10
java10
ruby10
javas10
githubaction-workflow10
jruby10
jvm9
performance-optimization9
concurrency8
git-clone6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jruby/jruby
Oct 2019 - Nov 2021
JRuby, an implementation of Ruby on the JVM
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 30 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Matt contributed significantly to the JRuby project, focusing on enhancing string handling and improving test coverage. They implemented benchmarks for `String#sub` and addressed behavior discrepancies in `String#sub` and `String#gsub` with string arguments, aligning them with CRuby's behavior. They also added a test case to address a method dispatch issue in Java integration, further demonstrating an emphasis on test automation and quality assurance. Additionally, the user refactored the CI/CD pipeline to use GitHub Actions.
ruby-languageconcurrencyrubyjvmperformance
fidothe/dotfiles
Nov 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 5 months
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