Matt Watson
Senior Engineer at dmg media
Yorkshire, Virginia, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Watson is a Senior Engineer with over two decades of web engineering experience and 11 years in focused professional roles, specialising in enterprise WordPress, Gutenberg/Block Editor, WooCommerce and performance-led architecture. He’s driven large-scale platform modernisations and standardisation efforts for publishers and regulated organisations, recently shaping DMG Media’s WordPress estate and previously delivering Altis/WordPress VIP projects for clients like The Harvard Gazette and Standard Chartered. A pragmatic technical lead and mentor, Matt blends hands-on PHP and React development with CI/CD, caching, API and observability best practices to build fast, secure, scalable sites. He co-founded Make Do, organised WordCamp Sheffield and Front End North, and brings rare experience moving public-sector CMS from legacy platforms into modern, task-based WordPress builds. Based in Yorkshire, he pairs a developer’s curiosity—coding since 1996 and “debugging in slippers” on GitHub—with a client-first focus that prioritises outcomes over output.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
The Open UniversitySheffield Hallam UniversityTraining
Github Skills (57)
wordpress10
wordpress-plugin10
wordpress-block9
gutenberg9
wordpress-api9
eloqua8
custom-fields8
gutenberg-blocks8
user-roles8
metaboxes7
gravatar7
kapow7
cmb27
api7
boilerplate6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mkdo/cpd
Mar 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:167 pushes, 10 branches, 107 comments in 2 years 4 months
mwtsn/ground-control
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:43 commits, 43 pushes, 1 tag in 1 month
compositionskeletontomwordpressphp
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