Matthew Owens
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Dayforce
Burntisland, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Owens is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years' experience building and operating resilient infrastructure across financial and medical sectors, now based in Burntisland, Scotland. He has held SRE and systems roles at Oracle, Skyscanner, and Tesco Bank and currently drives reliability at Dayforce, combining hands-on deployment with tooling and mentorship. A founder of Abyssal Thistle, he brings entrepreneurial instincts to engineering problems and maintains an active GitHub presence supporting that project. Known for a continual up-skilling mindset and a love of low-level programming, he frequently blends systems-level thinking with pragmatic automation. Collected experience in SCM, system engineering, and platform reliability lets him translate complex operational requirements into repeatable, auditable processes.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Games Applications Development, BSc, Computer Games Applications Development at Abertay University
Github Skills (37)
linux9
opengl9
raylib9
android9
macos9
webassembly9
raspberry-pi9
esp329
embedded9
game-development8
iot8
videogames8
game-engine8
converter7
markdown7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
MatthewOwens/Android_Networking_Coursework
Mar 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch, 4 issues in 3 years 8 months
MatthewOwens/website
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:75 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
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