Summary
Matthew Pennell is a Senior Designer with 17 years of experience crafting accessible, usable web experiences and maintaining large-scale booking platforms. At Booking.com he blends hands-on front-end engineering (XHTML, CSS, DOM, JavaScript) with infrastructure, tooling, standards and mentoring, occasionally stepping into team lead and recruitment duties. He started and ran a design studio, has editorial leadership experience from Digital Web Magazine, and brings practical backend familiarity with PHP, ASP and SQL. Based in Fenland, England, Matthew pairs an information-architecture mindset with a pragmatic hacker’s curiosity about code and automation. His long tenure on a high-traffic e-commerce site means he’s comfortable balancing design integrity with performance, scalability and cross-team collaboration. He’s the kind of designer-developer who quietly improves systems as well as interfaces.
17 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer