Summary
Matt Searle is a seasoned VP of Engineering with 25+ years of hands-on and leadership experience building high-performance teams and distributed platforms across finance, betting, and enterprise SaaS. He combines deep technical fluency in Java, Scala, Clojure, C/C++, Kafka and AWS with proven delivery of large-scale systems—ranging from low-latency trading and betting engines to global loan servicing platforms ingesting hundreds of millions of rows daily. Comfortable operating with the C-suite, Matt has led organisations of 350+ people and created autonomous, product-aligned engineering teams that emphasize observability, CI/CD and value stream thinking. He is skilled at translating complex technical tradeoffs into business outcomes via agile transformation, OKRs and systems-level architecture. Notably, his career spans both financial markets and consumer-facing high-throughput systems, giving him a rare blend of low-latency and data-focused distributed systems experience. Based in London, he pairs a practitioner’s coding background with senior strategic leadership to drive measurable customer-facing impact.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering Computer Science, Computer Software Engineering Computer Science at University of Bath
English