Matthew Evans
Director at Solid State Group
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Evans is a seasoned technology director with over two decades in interactive technologies and 15 years in senior leadership, currently leading digital transformation and cloud-native initiatives at Solid State Group. He combines hands-on back-end engineering (notably Python/Django contributions to the open-source Flagsmith feature-flagging project) with a strong practice in Lean Startup-driven validation, rapid prototyping and agile delivery. Matthew also founded and ran 1UP, producing hackathons, innovation workshops and demo days that bridge startups, agencies and enterprise product teams. Beyond software, he brings entrepreneurial breadth from co-running coworking and aesthetics ventures in London, giving him a rare mix of technical depth, event production savvy and commercial instincts.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BSC(Hons) Computing for Real Time Systems, BSC(Hons) Computing for Real Time Systems at University of the West of EnglandTrent College
Github Skills (9)
authentication10
user-authentication10
api10
python10
apidoc10
django10
rest-framework10
serialization9
data-serialization9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Flagsmith/flagsmith
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
Open Source Feature Flagging and Remote Config Service. Host on-prem or use our hosted version at https://flagsmith.com/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:144 releases, 2976 reviews, 1073 commits in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on back-end development tasks within the Flagsmith project, as demonstrated by commits related to fixing resource tracking errors, resolving test issues, and adding functionality to the user serializer. Their contributions involved working with Python and Django, which is evidenced in the code changes to `track.py`, `users/models.py`, and `users/serializers.py`. These changes included improvements in authentication, and data serialization logic.
pythonconfig-serviceremote-controlremote-configflagsmith
Flagsmith/flagsmith-python-client
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
Flagsmith Python Client. Flagsmith lets you manage features flags across web, mobile and server side applications. Get builds out faster. Control who has access to new features.
Contributions:12 releases, 80 reviews, 36 commits in 4 years 7 months
pythonremote-configflagsmithserver-sidecontinuous-integration
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