Summary
Matthew Atkinson is a Staff Software Engineer based in Brest, France, with eight years of experience building user-centric web applications and design-driven frontends. He has progressed from engineering roles to staff-level leadership at SWEEP, and has a strong track record delivering production systems across startups and consultancies like Zenika and Ollie Order. His strengths span React, TypeScript, NestJS and cloud infra (AWS/GCP), and he regularly shapes architecture, CI/CD pipelines, and design systems to enable scalable teams. Matthew pairs curiosity about new technologies with a pragmatic focus on product usability, having led audits, rewrites, and feature designs to improve long-term maintainability. Unusually for a frontend specialist, his background includes hands-on work in algorithmic systems and machine learning prototypes (fuel-price prediction) and even drone swarm research, reflecting a broad interest in complex systems. He brings a practical, multidisciplinary perspective that helps turn ambitious UX-driven ideas into reliable, scalable implementations.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School degree Scientific Engineering Sciences, High School degree Scientific Engineering Sciences at Jean Guehenno High School
Preparatory cycle computer and telecommunications engineer Computer sciences engineering, Preparatory cycle computer and telecommunications engineer Computer sciences engineering at Université de Rennes I
Internet of Things Computer sciences engineering, Internet of Things Computer sciences engineering at ESIR
English, French