Matthew Potts
Senior Staff Engineer at American Express
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Silver is a Senior Staff Engineer with eight years of experience building cloud-native developer platforms and modernizing enterprise systems at American Express. He blends Domain-Driven and User-Centered Design to deliver simple, testable solutions—specializing in infrastructure-as-code, Kubernetes, Crossplane, policy-as-code and developer experience. Matthew has led technical strategy and hiring, reorganised teams for autonomy, and driven measurable outcomes like cutting provisioning time from weeks to days and massively reducing onboarding time. He’s comfortable both shipping low-level tooling (Go CLIs, Terraform providers, GitHub Actions) and influencing high-level architecture and governance across security and infrastructure teams. Known for documenting and teaching internally, he’s authored frameworks and knowledge bases that improved productivity and enabled early cloud adopters at scale. Based in Stony Stratford, he combines hands-on engineering with people-first leadership and a curiosity for experimenting with CNCF technologies to shape the next-generation platform.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology Management for Business (ITMB), Computer Science & Business Management, 1st Class Honours, Information Technology Management for Business (ITMB), Computer Science & Business Management, 1st Class Honours at Keele UniversityMaster’s Degree, Information Technology with Business Management (ITBM), Computer Science & Business Management, Distinction, Master’s Degree, Information Technology with Business Management (ITBM), Computer Science & Business Management, Distinction at University of Sussex
Github Skills (5)
minecraft10
vtt3
foundry2
effort2
typescript1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
misterpotts/edh-rivals
Mar 2018 - Aug 2018
Just another MTG utility for Commander players
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
playersmtg
misterpotts/game-off-2018
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
https://itch.io/jam/game-off-2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 6 days
itch-iogamegame-off-2018jamgame-jam
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