Matthew Cheetham
Senior IOS Engineer at Benefex
East Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatthew Cheetham is a Senior iOS Engineer with 11 years' experience, currently leading iOS development at Benefex from East Hampshire. He excels at architecting app cores and frameworks, enjoys dissecting APIs, and brings a strong backend and DevOps sensibility from prolific open-source contributions to high-profile projects like Git, Git for Windows, and Microsoft’s Scalar and VFSForGit. That cross-stack fluency shows in his work improving build/release automation, credential management, and telemetry systems, demonstrating attention to robustness and release integrity beyond typical mobile responsibilities. A first-class Interactive Media Production graduate, he combines hands-on coding with team leadership and a taste for low-level problem solving that surfaces in both iOS architecture and complex tooling.
11 years of coding experience
GCSE, ICT, Media, Maths, English, Science, Humanities,, GCSE, ICT, Media, Maths, English, Science, Humanities, at Maltby AcademyA Level, Economics, Media, ICT, A Level, Economics, Media, ICT at Maltby Sixth FormBachelor’s Degree, Interactive Media Production, 1st, Bachelor’s Degree, Interactive Media Production, 1st at Bournemouth University
German
Github Skills (44)
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dotnet10
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asp-net10
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager
Nov 2018 - Dec 2022
Secure, cross-platform Git credential storage with authentication to GitHub, Azure Repos, and other popular Git hosting services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 releases, 531 reviews, 805 commits in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Matthew's commits primarily focus on implementing and improving credential management features for the git-credential-manager project. They enhanced credential storage by adding support for custom credential namespaces and implemented a plaintext credential store option for Linux. Their work also involved refactoring credential store construction and adding support for the GPG/pass-based credential store. The user also worked on addressing bugs by fixing issues related to directory resolution and password storage.
hostingazure-repossecureauthenticationaad
microsoft/scalar
Sep 2019 - Jan 2021
Scalar: A set of tools and extensions for Git to allow very large monorepos to run on Git without a virtualization layer
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:38 reviews, 111 commits, 37 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on improving the Scalar project's build and release processes across multiple platforms (macOS, Windows, and Linux). They implemented changes to the build scripts, CI/CD workflows, and installer creation, including code to support Debian packaging and Windows signing and notarization. Their contributions demonstrate a focus on automating builds, deployments, and ensuring the integrity of the project's releases. The user also contributed to fixes to NuGet package verification.
version-controllibgit2scalarvirtualizationextensions
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