Matt Riggott
Software Engineer
Reykjavik, Capital Region, Iceland
Summary
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SeniorMatt Riggott is a senior software engineer based in Reykjavik with 17 years of experience building frontend web applications and high-performance backend APIs, specializing in data visualization and geospatial systems. With an MSc in Informatics and a BSc in Computer Science, he combines academic rigour with practical engineering, and his cartographic work has been "highly commended" by the British Cartographic Society. A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and postgraduate student at Lund University, he brings domain expertise in mapping and spatial analysis to product development. Matt is an active open-source contributor—his backend and QA improvements to the human-friendly Python data library agate show a focus on robust I/O, better null handling in visual outputs, and stronger test coverage. He’s equally comfortable crafting polished frontends and tuning backend APIs for performance, making him a versatile asset for data-driven geospatial projects.
17 years of coding experience
Github Skills (5)
csv10
python10
testing10
data-analysis9
documentation8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
wireservice/agate
Sep 2015 - May 2016
A Python data analysis library that is optimized for humans instead of machines.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the `agate` library. Their contributions included expanding the capabilities of the CSV reading and writing functionality, allowing file-like objects to be used as inputs. Furthermore, the user addressed documentation issues and improved the test suite by adding new tests, modifying existing ones and making them more robust. They also made improvements related to the handling of null values in bar charts within the library.
python-data
flother/stadfangaskra
Apr 2019 - Jul 2021
A more useable copy of the official Icelandic street address database
Contributions:2 PRs, 115 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 3 months
addressicelandicdatabasestreetstreet-address
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