Matthew Costa
Cloud Engineer at Tide
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorMatthew Costa is a cloud engineer with two decades in IT and a decade of focused experience delivering infrastructure and DevOps at scale across fintech and security startups. He has led DevOps and infrastructure teams—from heading a small ISP to serving as Head of DevOps at Funding Options and Cloud Engineer at Tide—while architecting secure, in-house software solutions at Callsign. A polyglot developer and hacker at heart, he contributes to notable open-source projects such as SerenityOS, where he helped modernize the Ladybird browser with tabbed browsing and high-DPI rendering fixes. Matthew blends hands-on systems, database, and software engineering expertise with leadership in cloud architecture and incident-resilient operations. Based in England, he turns exploratory side projects into practical improvements that strengthen reliability and usability in production systems.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (6)
c-language10
browser10
cprogramming-language10
qt10
desktop9
operating-system9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
SerenityOS/serenity
Jul 2022 - Jul 2022
The Serenity Operating System 🐞
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the development of the Ladybird browser, focusing on both UI and core functionality. They implemented features such as tab closing, browser history, and home/reload buttons, integrating them with the existing QT interface. Further, the user refactored the browser structure by introducing a tabbed browsing system to enhance usability. They also addressed rendering issues and made improvements to ensure the WebView renders correctly on high-dpi displays.
kernelunixbrowserserenityoperating-system
ucosty/WorkbenchOS
Dec 2021 - Mar 2023
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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