Matthew Ault
Independent Systems Engineer Writer at Foobarcat
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatthew Ault is an independent systems engineer and writer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and stabilising backend and distributed systems for scale. He’s led architecture for high-throughput platforms—from camera media indexing at Ecobee expected to serve hundreds of thousands of devices to multi-hundred-thousand events-per-second ingestion pipelines at Segment—balancing latency, cost, and operability. Comfortable in hyper-growth startups and product-facing teams, he’s driven zero-downtime migrations, improved observability, and rebuilt testing and interview practices to better reflect production realities. His background spans embedded OS and compiler work through cloud-native microservices, giving him uncommon depth across hardware-adjacent systems and large-scale cloud platforms. Based in the UK, he combines pragmatic engineering with clear technical communication, now focusing on independent systems work and technical writing.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
1st class BSc, Artificial Intelligence, 1st class BSc, Artificial Intelligence at University of Leeds
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
793reputation
210kreached
9answers
5questions
Github Skills (65)
segment10
golang10
kafka10
producer10
kafka-consumer9
receipt-validation9
mixpanel9
integrate9
android-app9
go9
react-native-app8
programming-language8
kotlin8
okta8
web-application7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aultimus/chatserver
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
aultimus/six_degrees_imdb
Mar 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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