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 (39)
wordpress10
wordpress-plugin10
wordpress-block9
gutenberg9
kapow9
eloqua8
gravityforms8
user-roles8
wp-admin8
metaboxes7
gravatar7
cmb27
checkboxlist6
wordpress-shortcode5
plugin-development5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mattwatsoncodes/secure-blocks-for-gutenberg
Aug 2018 - Jan 2019
Secure your content in the editor by user role with Secure Blocks for Gutenberg
Contributions:30 commits, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
wholesomecode/wholesome-block-comments
Jun 2020 - Oct 2021
Plugin that brings draft blocks and block notes to the WordPress block editor (Gutenberg)
Contributions:12 commits, 8 PRs, 71 pushes in 1 year 3 months
wordpress-block
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