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.
12 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 (56)
defold10
virtual-machine9
lua9
macos8
froala8
clojure8
linux8
windows8
javascript8
game-engine7
rendering7
game-development7
html6
inputstream6
mobile6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mattpwest/ghost-town
Jun 2019 - Sep 2019
Perhaps 2019 will be the year I get somewhere in trying to make roguelike?
Contributions:1 release, 65 commits, 2 PRs in 2 months
roguelike
mattpwest/LD32
Apr 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:1 release, 50 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 7 months
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