Matthew Hammond
Head Of Infrastructure at Ably
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Hammond is an experienced infrastructure and reliability leader with 14+ years building and operating large-scale, cloud-native platforms across media and realtime messaging businesses. Currently Head of Infrastructure at Ably, he has progressed through senior SRE and platform roles to lead infrastructure, data and security teams that keep global realtime systems performant and resilient. His background spans hands-on SRE, DevOps and platform engineering at Sky and earlier technical leadership in higher education, giving him a rare blend of operational rigor and developer-facing empathy. Matthew is known for scaling teams and systems in production, driving continuous improvement and incident excellence, and for pairing technical depth with an eye for observability and secure data operations. An unconventional detail: his academic roots are in documentary photography, reflecting a creative, human-centered perspective he applies to systems design and team leadership.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Documentary Photography, MA, Documentary Photography at University of Wales, NewportBA (Hons), Photography, Film and Imaging, BA (Hons), Photography, Film and Imaging at Edinburgh Napier University
Github Skills (48)
integrations10
agent10
datadog10
client-library9
common-files9
child-process9
api-documentation9
api8
graph8
realtime-api8
messaging7
realtime7
terraform7
aws7
fog6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
emptyhammond/formr
May 2012 - Mar 2016
Contributions:133 commits, 3 PRs, 13 pushes in 3 years 10 months
form-generatororm
ably-forks/integrations-extras
Mar 2023 - Jul 2024
Community developed integrations and plugins for the Datadog Agent.
Contributions:23 pushes in 1 year 4 months
datadog-agentintegrationsagentdatadog
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