Matthew Goslett
Principal Engineer at Yoco
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMatthew Goslett is a principal engineer and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience building scalable, cloud-native platforms across e-commerce, fintech and edtech. He co-founded South Africa’s leading online retailer Superbalist, led its transition to event-driven services and Kubernetes, and later scaled infrastructure and developer tooling as a senior engineering leader at Yoco and CTO across high-growth startups. Language-agnostic and hands-on, he architects resilient systems, builds CI/CD and platform tooling, and mentors teams to adopt pragmatic engineering practices. Known as a hacker who values deliberate experimentation, he balances rapid iteration with production-grade reliability and brings a fondness for Raspberry Pi projects and endurance sports to his problem-solving approach.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce Financial Accounting, Bachelor of Commerce Financial Accounting at University of Cape TownMatric, Matric at Herzlia HIgh School
English, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
1,137reputation
28kreached
1answer
1question
dockerfile
top-5%
docker
top-5%
Github Skills (149)
google-cloud-platform10
google-cloud10
permission10
laravel10
flysystem10
adapter10
filesystem10
php-rdkafka10
google-cloud-storage10
php10
klaviyo9
client-library9
sdk9
currency-exchange-rates9
error-handler9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Superbalist/php-pubsub-kafka
Sep 2016 - May 2017
A Kafka adapter for the php-pubsub package
Contributions:4 releases, 23 commits, 4 PRs in 8 months
phpadapterphp-pubsubphp-rdkafkakafka
Superbalist/js-event-pubsub
May 2017 - Jul 2017
An event protocol and implementation over pub/sub
Contributions:8 releases, 17 commits, 10 PRs in 2 months
js-event-pubsubnode-jsnode-modulejavascriptstreams
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