Matthew Davis
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Mumsnet
Stone, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatthew Davis is a hands-on Chief Technology Officer with 14+ years of experience designing and scaling resilient web platforms, currently leading technology at Mumsnet. He combines deep PHP/Symfony/Laravel expertise with practical architecture work—migrating legacy systems to service-oriented designs, introducing CI/CD, and driving performance and availability improvements. Matthew has a strong track record of building engineering capability, mentoring teams in SOLID principles and agile practices, and delivering high-availability systems on cloud infrastructures. Notably, he began his career building award-winning multimedia software and ran his own development studio, giving him both product empathy and entrepreneurial instincts. Based in Stone, UK, he blends strategic leadership with regular coding and architecture ownership.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
4 A-Levels, 4 A-Levels at Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College11 GCSEs Grade A* - C, 11 GCSEs Grade A* - C at Trentham High SchoolBachelor of Music, Percussion Instruments, 2:1, Bachelor of Music, Percussion Instruments, 2:1 at Birmingham City University
English
Stackoverflow
398reputation
42kreached
6answers
3questions
Github Skills (157)
web-application10
buttons10
command-line-tool10
composer10
expressive10
bundle10
laravel10
zip10
apply10
php-framework10
rapid10
cli10
application-framework10
symfony-bundle10
foundation10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
phpspec/nyan-formatters
Jan 2014 - Jan 2020
Contributions:1 release, 7 commits, 5 PRs in 6 years 1 month
smayzes/eve
Sep 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:48 commits, 37 PRs, 69 pushes in 4 months
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