Matthew Blackford
Vice President Of Engineering at RWS Group
Reigate and Banstead, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatthew Blackford is a hands-on technology leader and Vice President of Engineering with nine years of focused experience building scalable products across startups and large enterprises. He has progressed from founding and engineering roles to senior architecture and productivity leadership at News UK and OVO, now leading engineering at RWS Group. Known for bridging technical complexity and business needs, he pairs deep coding instincts with strategic oversight to improve developer enablement and infrastructure. Based in Reigate and Banstead, he brings a pragmatic, product-first approach informed by a Software Engineering degree from the University of Adelaide and a track record of translating architecture decisions into measurable delivery outcomes. An effective communicator and collaborator, he often steps into code to validate designs while coaching teams to operate at scale.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science Software Engineering, Bachelor of Computer Science Software Engineering at University of Adelaide
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Github Skills (18)
twilio-sdk9
android-fragments9
wordpress9
twilio9
android9
sdk8
versioning6
hudson6
api6
symfony6
continuous-integration6
java6
msbuild6
wordpress-plugin4
crawler4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mblackford/BlackfordTwilioBundle
Nov 2016 - Jan 2023
Symfony wrapper for the official Twilio SDK v5
Contributions:2 releases, 11 commits, 2 PRs in 6 years 2 months
twiliotwilio-sdksymfonysdk
mblackford/TubeChallenge
Jan 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
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