Matthew Benton
Engineering Lead at Ecologi | B Corp™
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Benton is an engineering lead with 11 years of experience building high-scale, full-stack systems across front-end React and back-end distributed architectures on AWS. He has driven major migrations and product launches at IMDb/Amazon — notably leading a federated GraphQL migration across tens of services and helping commercialize IMDb data — and now leads engineering at Ecologi. Known for creating developer tooling that accelerates teams, he blends hands-on coding with technical leadership, having performed 300+ interviews as an Amazon Bar Raiser. Comfortable scaling sites for peak traffic and decomposing monoliths into service-driven platforms, he pairs practical system design with a product-minded approach. Based in Bristol, he brings rare depth across UI polish, platform reliability, and developer experience. An MEng Computer Science graduate, he combines long-form engineering craft with a knack for making teams move faster.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MEng Computer Science, MEng Computer Science at University of Bristol
Github Skills (60)
social-media10
adapter9
aws9
tailwindcss9
react9
mongodb8
nextjs8
sst8
cloud-infrastructure8
typescript8
nodejs8
development-kit8
gatsby7
aws-cloud7
javascript7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mjwbenton/staircase-generator
Jun 2016 - Jan 2023
🚫 Deprecated – A bunch of steps that generate a static website.
Contributions:3 PRs, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 8 months
static-site-generatorsteps
mjwbenton/api-gateway-cloudwatch-role
Mar 2019 - Apr 2022
🚫 Deprecated – Cloudformation stack giving API Gateway permission to write logs to Cloudwatch
Contributions:4 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
api-gatewayapicloudformation-stackserverlesspermission
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