Matthew Gifford
Application Engineer
Nicosia, Lefkoşa District, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatthew Gifford is an Application Engineer with 15 years of experience designing APIs and building scalable, resilient systems, currently contributing at DistroKid. He combines a long history of hands-on web and backend work—from ColdFusion era projects and BBC contracts to leading his own firms—with modern API architecture and system design. As a founder and former managing director he brings product-minded pragmatism to engineering problems, balancing technical debt, performance and delivery. Based in Nicosia but UK-rooted, he has a track record of adapting legacy platforms into maintainable, production-grade services and mentoring teams through technology transitions. Notably, his career spans both specialist consultancy engagements and in-house platform work, giving him a versatile perspective on building reliable web services.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
St. Ivo School, Cambridgeshire
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (97)
authentication10
cfc10
twitter10
api10
twitter-api-v210
oauth2-client10
twitter-api10
twitter-client10
oauth10
coldfusion10
google-indexing9
netsuite9
google-indexing-api9
postmark9
profanity9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cfmlbadges/cfmlbadges.github.io
Jun 2018 - Apr 2023
The CFML Badges site
Contributions:4 PRs, 8 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 11 months
cfmlbadges
andywrightmusic/andywrightmusic.github.io
Jun 2018 - Jul 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 31 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 1 month
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