Matt Van Der Westhuizen
Technical Lead at Ubisoft Düsseldorf
Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolMatt Van Der Westhuizen is a Technical Lead with 12 years of experience building full-stack web and back-end services, currently leading teams at Ubisoft Düsseldorf focused on fighting toxicity in online games. He combines Java-based server engineering with modern JavaScript front-ends (Angular) and strong DevOps practice—Docker, Linux, Ansible and AWS—to deliver resilient, scalable systems. His background spans product delivery and technical leadership roles at Ubisoft, Entelect and Sentech, where he moved from hands-on engineering to mentoring, training and solution quality ownership. A University of Johannesburg BSc Hons in Computer Science underpins a pragmatic approach to system design and operational excellence, and he has a track record of shipping major service versions that improve player safety and moderation. Not immediately obvious: he has balanced hands-on infrastructure work (Ubuntu server automation) with teaching experience, which informs his emphasis on clear documentation and team enablement.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Information Technology at Rand Afrikaans University (RAU)University of Johannesburg 
English, Afrikaans, german (beginner)
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Github Skills (73)
virtual-machine9
linux8
javascript8
rendering8
defold8
froala8
windows7
lua7
game-development7
phaser7
webgl7
canvas7
macos7
android-http-client6
jquery6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mattpwest/LD32
Apr 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:1 release, 50 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 7 months
mattpwest/LD33
Aug 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:1 release, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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