Summary
Matt Stabeler is a lead developer and entrepreneur with over a decade of full-stack experience building web and distributed systems, and the founder-director of BigBadWeb Ltd. He combines hands-on engineering—spanning front-end, back-end, CI/CD and cloud architecture—with client-facing work: proposal, discovery and product delivery. Matt holds a PhD in Opportunistic Networking and has published research on delay-tolerant routing and human mobility, bringing a rigorous analytical perspective to practical system design. His career includes leading platform and integration work at companies from Virgin Holidays to Beamery and recent leadership as Lead Developer at RiskBase. Outside core work he experiments at the intersection of cryptocurrencies, automated trading, photography and drones, reflecting a taste for combining research curiosity with real-world projects. Colleagues value his ability to quickly analyse problems, modernise legacy estates and translate complex requirements into reliable, testable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Internet Computing, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Internet Computing at University of Hull
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University College Dublin