Matt Wells
Director at Morgan Wells IT Recruitment
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorMatt Wells is a director and co-founder of Morgan Wells, a specialist IT and telecommunications recruitment firm he has helped grow since 2003, bringing 17 years of industry experience to client and candidate partnerships. He combines commercial leadership with deep market knowledge to design tailored hiring solutions across permanent and contract roles, emphasizing quality, flexibility, and simplified processes. Based in England, Matt also has hands-on technical roots—formerly an SRE at GitHub and a back-end contributor to the Kohana framework where he improved cache validation and ETag handling—bringing rare operational and engineering insight to recruitment for technical teams. Known for adapting to shifting market conditions, he leverages both practical engineering experience and long-standing recruiter expertise to match technical talent with complex business needs.
17 years of coding experience
Github Skills (4)
php10
request-handler10
kohana10
caching10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kohana/core
Jul 2009 - Jul 2009
Core system classes from Kohana
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 9 days
Contributions summary:Matt focused on implementing and refining cache validation within the Kohana framework. Their contributions included initial ETag support, adding error checking, fixing conditional checks, and refactoring the caching system into `generate_etag` and `check_cache` methods. The user also addressed a potential issue related to error handling in the framework. These changes demonstrate a focus on performance optimization and improving the robustness of the request handling.
kohana
ninjapenguin/phalanx
Nov 2013 - Apr 2014
Contributions:30 commits, 9 pushes, 2 tags in 5 months
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