Matt Tennison
Staff Engineer at Kraken
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolMatt Tennison is a Staff Engineer based in Manchester with 11 years’ experience building reliable, test-driven web platforms using TypeScript, Node.js, React and AWS serverless architectures. He combines hands-on engineering with team leadership—coaching squads in EDA, mob programming and CI/CD practices to ship safer, faster features while reducing tech debt. Matt has driven finance platform capabilities at cinch, supported large-scale product launches at Sky, and now works on grid-decarbonisation efforts at Kraken/Octopus, demonstrating a knack for shipping pragmatic, observable systems. He’s a practical advocate of mutation testing, automated documentation and trunk-based development, and often pairs product negotiation with technical design to meet hard deadlines. Notably, he brings experience migrating and integrating legacy Ruby systems into modern JavaScript stacks rather than opting for risky big-bang rewrites.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Newcastle University
Github Skills (60)
rewrite9
facebook9
typescript9
redux-actions9
fetch9
fetch-api9
w3c8
api8
cloudflare-workers8
apollo8
javascript8
nodejs8
api-client8
testing8
deno7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MattTennison/remix-todo-app
Dec 2021 - Apr 2022
Basic ToDo app using the Remix framework deployed on Fly.io (currently incomplete)
Contributions:56 PRs, 402 pushes, 52 branches in 4 months
todoreacttodo-appcypressdeployed
MattTennison/louvre
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
CloudFlare worker serving pictures from Pexels 🖼️
Contributions:43 commits, 11 PRs, 42 pushes in 1 year 3 months
cloudflare-workerservingpexels-apipicturescloudflare
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