Matt Simon
Founder at Department for Business and Trade
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Simon is a founder and senior frontend specialist with over 15 years’ experience delivering accessible, performant user interfaces for government and major brands, including leading the front end for the UK Census 2021. He builds design systems and pattern libraries from the ground up to provide consistent, modular front ends consumed across dozens of services, with a strong focus on accessibility, performance and user experience. Currently he is shaping a custom design system for the UK Department for Business and Trade while also launching Chatworks, a WhatsApp-native invoicing product for tradespeople. Matt combines hands-on coding (modern JS, React, design tokens, CSS custom properties) with interaction design and stakeholder-facing communication, running workshops and accessibility testing. He’s comfortable taking projects from research and prototypes through production at scale, and often champions pragmatic, tech-agnostic solutions that make reuse and theming straightforward. Based in Cardiff, he pairs agency-speed delivery with public-sector rigour, delivering systems that survive heavy traffic and diverse user needs.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSc I.T, Web Design, Web Development, Animation, Graphic design, BSc I.T, Web Design, Web Development, Animation, Graphic design at University of Wales, Newport
Github Skills (68)
typescript10
wtforms10
summernote10
react10
pattern9
jwt9
control-panel9
storybook9
experiences9
cms9
silverstripe9
extensible9
craftcms9
cdn9
php9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ONSdigital/census-website-generator
Apr 2019 - Sep 2021
Static site generator for the Census website
Contributions:8 releases, 42 reviews, 114 PRs in 2 years 5 months
site-generatorstatic-sitestatic-site-generatorcensus
ONSdigital/design-system-react
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
React implementation of the ONS Design System (work in progress).
Contributions:7 reviews, 55 PRs, 153 pushes in 1 month
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