Matthew Salt
Engineering Director - Customer Identity & Financial Crime at Starling Bank
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatthew Salt is an engineering director specializing in customer identity and financial crime, currently leading teams at Starling Bank after a decade building low-latency trading and market-making platforms. He combines hands-on expertise in Core Java, Spring, Kafka, Docker and AWS with a track record of improving developer productivity and delivery practices across trading and banking domains. Matthew has driven major platform redevelopments, auto-execution enhancements and CI/CD/tooling initiatives at Citi and Starling, and has led cross-functional teams delivering pricing, caching and reference-data services to internal and external clients. Comfortable translating complex trading requirements into reliable, scalable systems, he brings both technical depth in spread products and practical leadership in operationalising platforms. Based in the UK with a BSc in Theoretical Astrophysics from Durham, he’s a lifelong learner who enjoys experimenting with new technologies and quietly improving developer workflows.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc Theoretical Astrophysics, Bsc Theoretical Astrophysics at Durham University
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Github Skills (40)
git10
github10
soap-api10
soap10
system-calls10
wrapping10
patch9
api9
cli8
prompt8
subversion8
inquirer8
javascript8
nodejs8
ruby7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mattsalt/filelink
Mar 2018 - Oct 2020
Contributions:9 PRs, 17 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 6 months
mattsalt/national-rail-darwin
Dec 2016 - Oct 2019
JS module abstracting national rail's SOAP API
Contributions:91 commits, 13 PRs, 73 pushes in 2 years 9 months
apinationaljavascriptsoaprail
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