Matthew Nessworthy
Senior Software Engineer at Ringier South Africa
Xaghra, Gozo Region, Malta
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Top SchoolMatthew Nessworthy is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building performant, responsive frontends and resilient PHP backends for global e-commerce and media platforms. He specializes in front-end optimization—automating build pipelines, squeezing rendering time, and making sites work well on slow networks—and has led large-scale responsive conversions across 45+ international sites. Comfortable across the stack, he’s maintained Symfony and PHPUnit tooling, contributed backend fixes to the popular paratest PHPUnit runner, and modernized legacy PHP frameworks for scale. Based in Gozo, Malta, he’s known for streamlining developer workflows and turning repetitive tasks into automated processes so teams can focus on product-impacting work.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in Computer Science (Engineering), Java/MySQL/C#, Distinction, Diploma in Computer Science (Engineering), Java/MySQL/C#, Distinction at CTI Education GroupReddam House
English
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Github Skills (17)
testing10
configuration-management10
phpunit10
php10
software-design9
jquery9
refactoring9
html6
jquery-ui6
iframe6
internet-explorer6
css6
forms6
append6
color-picker6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
paratestphp/paratest
Nov 2018 - Aug 2020
:computer: Parallel testing for PHPUnit
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 11 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on refactoring and improving the ParaTest PHPUnit runner. Their contributions included updating package dependencies, removing unused code, and fixing issues related to full suite execution and configuration loading. The user also updated tests to align with code changes, demonstrating a commitment to maintaining code quality and functionality. The changes predominantly involved modifying PHPUnit configuration and core runner components.
paralleltestingphpphpunitparallel-testing
RingierIMU/jmespath.php
Mar 2022 - Mar 2025
Declaratively specify how to extract elements from a JSON document, in PHP
Contributions:3 releases, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years
elementsjson-documentphpspecifyjson
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