Summary
Matthew Hey is a Senior Solution Architect with over 20 years of engineering experience and nine years in senior architecture roles, specializing in banking and telecommunications. He’s led mobile and backend platforms for major NZ banks, owning Westpac’s Internet and Mobile Banking platform and previously heading BNZ’s mobile engineering. Skilled across iOS, Android, Flutter, Java/Spring, microservices and Kubernetes, he blends hands-on development with strategic architectural leadership. He also runs Electric Bolt, creating developer tools like Appfigurate for runtime configuration and feature toggles across mobile platforms. Based in Lower Hutt, Matthew is known for translating complex financial requirements into secure, testable mobile and cloud-native systems.
9 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Central Institute of Technology