Matthew Blewitt is a Senior Software Engineer based in Leeds with 11 years building performant, tested JavaScript applications across e-learning, e-commerce, telecoms, higher education and government. He combines front-end expertise (React, Vue, PWAs) with back-end and serverless Node/TypeScript work, delivering event-driven microservices and OLAP reporting for customer-facing platforms. Notable contributions include modernising legacy enterprise systems—replacing a 15-year-old platform at Hermes—and leading the University of Leeds’ front-end framework adoption. He also contributes to the Heroku CLI, improving Postgres and Redis tooling, showing a comfort with both developer tooling and production data services. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex domain processes into reliable, auditable solutions that scale.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
First Class Bachelor of Science Honours, New Media Technology, First Class Bachelor of Science Honours, New Media Technology at Leeds Beckett University
Contributions:9 commits, 8 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to improving the Heroku CLI, with a focus on the Postgres and Redis add-ons. They addressed bug fixes related to date formatting and database identifier handling within the Postgres CLI. The user implemented features like JSON output for the `redis:info` command and a new command to reset Redis statistics. Additionally, the user refactored Postgres connection string parsing and added functionality to the pg:diagnose command.
Tiny Rails 5 app, with Turbolinks and MaterializeCSS
Contributions:2 PRs, 27 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 10 months
ruby-on-railsmaterializecssrailstinyhotel-booking
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