Matthew Needs
Network Development Engineer at AllPoints Fibre
Greater Exeter Area United Kingdom
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolMatthew Needs is a seasoned Network Development Engineer with 11 years’ experience designing, testing and deploying resilient enterprise and service-provider infrastructure using Cisco Classic, Meraki and Alcatel‑Lucent/Nokia platforms. He’s delivered full‑stack unified communications and high‑availability IP core designs for 500+ user deployments and practical operator-grade solutions spanning routers, switches, firewalls, WLAN, SBCs, GPON and TR‑069 provisioning systems. Comfortable across BGP, OSPF, VRF, QoS, SIP and CGN, he pairs deep protocol-level expertise with hands-on product evaluation and pre-deployment testing to ensure performance and security. Former head of network implementation and long-term third‑line escalation lead, he’s equally at home defining engineering processes, training teams and stepping into complex field escalations. Based in the Greater Exeter area, he brings a pragmatic, stakeholder-focused approach and a habit of uncovering real-world operational gaps during lab testing that materially improve runbook and deployment outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Adv GNVQ Engineering, Adv GNVQ Engineering at Exeter CollegeCisco CCNA, CCNP, CSVPN, QOS, SECURE, PIX/ASA, Cisco CCNA, CCNP, CSVPN, QOS, SECURE, PIX/ASA at Comstor UK (Cisco Training)GCSE's 7x A-C Grade. Inc English, Math & Sciences., GCSE's 7x A-C Grade. Inc English, Math & Sciences. at St Peters CofE High SchoolAlcatel-Lucent University
Github Skills (15)
plugin6
volumio6
x-plane6
eagle5
equalizer5
raspberry5
mcfunction5
audio-applications4
reservation-system4
parametric4
filemaker4
hyperion3
linux1
linux-kernel1
kernel1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mneedes/mos
Nov 2019 - Sep 2022
Contributions:8 releases, 283 commits, 209 pushes in 2 years 10 months
mneedes/flashrom
Apr 2020 - Jan 2021
Patches welcome, see https://www.flashrom.org/Development_Guidelines#Patch_submission
Contributions:2 pushes in 9 months
patchdevelopment-guidelinespatchesguidelineswelcome
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.