Summary
Matt Windsor is a software engineer with 15 years of experience combining academic research and industry practice to build verification and developer productivity tooling. He currently works at Anaplan improving validation and verification systems and contributing to the company’s open-source engineering portfolio, previously shaping CI/CD metadata tooling in Rust and SQL. His background includes PhD-level research and hands-on roles at the University of York and Imperial College, where he developed formal methods and compiler/testing tools for autonomous and many-core systems. Comfortable across languages (Kotlin, Java, Rust, Go) and platforms, he focuses on reducing toil through robust developer-facing infrastructure. Colleagues value his blend of rigorous formal-methods thinking with pragmatic engineering delivered as reusable, documented tooling. Based in Harrogate, he keeps his research and engineering work open-source where possible, signaling a preference for reproducibility and community use.
16 years of coding experience