Summary
Matt Platts is a Senior Software Development and DevOps Engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience building bespoke e-commerce, CMS and security-focused systems, now operating in cyber security at Broadcom/Symantec. He began coding on home micros in the 1980s and architected a long-lived PHP/Perl e-commerce and ERP platform still in use today, integrating warehouses, accounting and third-party services. Comfortable across full stack and operational tooling, he blends legacy strengths in Perl, Bash and Linux with modern JavaScript, Node/React, Docker, Jenkins and Python-based DevOps. He has led technical teams, managed stakeholder-driven projects, and provided top-tier emergency support across UK–US teams. Notably, his career spans both deep product-building for SME clients and secure, mission-critical systems for banking and cyber security environments.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Maths, Physics, Maths, Physics at Chesham High School