Summary
Matthew Sharp is a London-based lead engineer with 10 years’ experience blending hands-on full-stack development, product leadership, and startup founding. He has repeatedly scaled consumer and marketplace products—improving performance and throughput (e.g., migrating to Next.js and lifting Lighthouse scores, building ecommerce handling >£100k/week) and leading teams as Tech Lead/Engineering Manager at Let’s Do This and Lead Engineer at Team Lily. As Co-Founder/CTO and Director of prior ventures, he pairs technical execution with commercial ownership, having raised funding, managed supplier and investor relationships, and run kitchen operations serving hundreds of daily orders. Comfortable across React/TypeScript/Node and cloud-hosted deployments, he excels at turning operational pain points into live data and automation that cut weeks of work to hours. A mathematician by training, he brings analytical rigor and entrepreneurial grit to product and engineering decisions.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics and Philosophy, 2.1, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Mathematics and Philosophy, 2.1 at The University of Manchester