Matthew Ridehalgh
Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Preston, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Ridehalgh is a Senior Solutions Architect with 11 years' experience designing and delivering cloud-first, highly available systems primarily on AWS using Java and Go. He has a strong track record across greenfield and brownfield projects, applying domain-driven design, TDD, and the "you build it, you run it" philosophy with cross-functional teams. Matthew advocates immutable infrastructure and GitOps, leveraging Docker, Terraform, CI/CD, Lambda, ECS Fargate and observability tools to improve automation and reliability. At AWS he contributes to serverless patterns (including EventBridge-to-SNS and EventBridge-to-Step-Functions integrations) demonstrating practical expertise in event-driven architectures. He pairs hands-on engineering with mentoring and university guest lectures, reflecting a commitment to developer community and best practices. Based in Preston, UK, he brings a pragmatic blend of architecture, implementation and operational ownership that shortens feedback loops and reduces production risk.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at The University of Huddersfield
Github Skills (14)
aws-sqs-fifo10
javas10
eventbus10
serverless10
aws-eventbridge10
step-functions10
aws10
aws-cdk10
eventhub10
amazon-sqs10
java10
amazon-sns10
api-gateway9
aws-sam4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
aws-samples/serverless-patterns
Dec 2022 - Apr 2024
Serverless patterns. Learn more at the website: https://serverlessland.com/patterns.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 6 PRs, 6 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributes to serverless patterns using Java and the AWS CDK. They implemented new patterns like an EventBridge to SNS integration and an EventBridge to Step Functions integration. The user also focused on integrating services like SQS, SNS, Step Functions, and API Gateway, demonstrating a good understanding of serverless architecture. They created new code for different serverless patterns and also updated existing code to include merge changes.
serverlessawsawssam
mridehalgh/terraform-ecs-container-instance-draining
Sep 2020 - Nov 2021
Automates Container Instance Draining in Amazon ECS by removing tasks from an instance before scaling down a cluster with Auto Scaling Groups.
Contributions:4 commits, 8 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 1 month
amazon-ecsautoscaling
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