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 (41)
lucene10
search-engine10
nosql10
maven-plugin10
information-retrieval10
solr10
java10
backend10
querying10
biomedical10
biology9
dotnet9
indexing9
bioinformatics9
solr-client9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mattflax/rated-ranking-evaluator
Nov 2018 - Dec 2020
Search Quality Evaluation Tool for Apache Solr & Elasticsearch search-based infrastructures
Contributions:92 pushes, 45 branches, 3 comments in 2 years 1 month
elasticsearchsolr
mattflax/rre-generic-searchplatform-example
Apr 2020 - Jun 2022
Contributions:8 PRs, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
search-enginesearchrregeneric
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