Summary
Matthew Lau is a platform-focused software engineer with nine years of experience building and scaling cloud-native applications across Azure, GCP and AWS. Currently at UBS after leading platform and full‑stack projects at Credera and Deloitte, he specializes in Kubernetes-based deployments (AKS/GKE), Terraform automation, and cloud CI/CD. He has delivered high‑scale solutions for commodities, banking payments and utility platforms, re-architecting legacy systems into cloud-native services that serve millions of users. Equally comfortable in backend services (Java Spring Boot, Python, .NET) and frontend stacks (React/Redux), he bridges infrastructure and application concerns to speed delivery. Outside of client work he creates and deploys open-source web tooling and serverless accelerators, demonstrating a practical appetite for reusable automation. Based in London, he pairs an analytical UCL Earth Sciences background with a persistent focus on operational reliability and pragmatic engineering.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
GCE A-Levels Mathematics Physics Chemistry Geography Chinese, GCE A-Levels Mathematics Physics Chemistry Geography Chinese at Dulwich College London
University College London
English, Chinese, French