Summary
Matthew Mackay is a Staff Software Developer with 12 years of experience focused on developer platforms, build tooling, and scalable frontend and backend systems. He’s a core maintainer of several open-source Bazel rulesets for NodeJS and Python and has driven full monorepo migrations and CI/CD optimizations that keep engineering velocity high. Comfortable across the stack, he builds large-scale Angular frontends and services with Nest and Spring while shaping processes and tooling to scale teams. A frequent conference speaker on Bazel and Buildkite, he blends hands-on implementation with platform strategy and developer experience advocacy. Based in the Greater Hamilton area, he currently works at Robinhood after senior platform roles at Aspect Development and a long tenure leading software for broadcast systems at Evertz.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Media Technology, BSc (Hons) Media Technology at Southampton Solent University