Summary
Matthew Kinton is a Technical Lead with nine years' experience building cloud-native platforms and services, currently leading platform work at Prolific. He brings deep hands-on expertise in GCP, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Terraform, Python and Go, and has progressed from graduate roles to senior and leadership positions across dunnhumby, cinch and Prolific. Known for pragmatic platform engineering, he focuses on enabling teams with scalable infrastructure while still enjoying front-end experimentation—often prototyping React + Firebase projects in his spare time. Based in Trafford, England, he combines production-grade backend skill with an appreciation for polished web UX, making him effective at bridging developer experience and operational reliability.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Computer Science, BSc (Hons) Computer Science at The University of Sheffield