Matt Pearce
Project Technical Lead at European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatt Pearce is a Project Technical Lead based in Cambridge with 11 years of professional software engineering experience focused on open-source search and web technologies. He combines hands-on development in Java and Python with deep relevancy and search expertise—having worked extensively with Solr and Elasticsearch and contributed to BioSolr efforts for the life sciences. Matt has led projects and small teams at EMBL-EBI and ProQuest, and spent years as a contractor delivering client-server search applications, training, and consultancy that bridge research and production needs. His background includes building responsive web front ends, DropWizard-based back ends, and bespoke event and data-capture systems, demonstrating a knack for applying search tech to unusual domains like exhibitions and real-time hardware-driven events. Pragmatic and community-minded, he consistently feeds practical extensions back to open-source projects while shaping search-driven user experiences for scientific and commercial use.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at University of Kent
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (51)
querying10
biomedical10
biology9
solr9
indexing9
lucene9
maven-plugin9
bioinformatics9
solr-client9
backend9
solrnet8
elasticsearch8
dotnet8
information-retrieval8
java8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mattflax/rre-generic-searchplatform-example
Apr 2020 - Jun 2022
Contributions:8 PRs, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
search-enginesearchrregeneric
mattflax/dropwizard-elasticsearch6
Dec 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 20 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years
dropwizardelasticsearch
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