Matthew Smithies
Chief Technology Officer at Safe Streaming
Paignton, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatthew Smithies is a pragmatic technology leader and CTO with 11+ years building interoperable, auditable systems for tokenised environmental markets and consumer-facing products. He leads DOVU’s engineering vision, designing end-to-end process orchestration and a digital credit warehouse that blends AI and distributed ledger tech to deliver secure, scalable workflows. Matthew pairs hands-on expertise across Laravel, React Native, Docker/Kubernetes and blockchain proof-of-concept work with a track record of simplifying complex systems for non-technical stakeholders. He’s also a repeat founder and consultant who has shipped mobile and backend platforms, mentored teams, and driven product pivots that replaced bloated infrastructure with lean, testable designs. Based in Paignton, England, he brings a creative problem-solving style—he once pivoted DOVU from multiple experimental directions into a focused marketplace for tokenised carbon offsets. Sometimes he pretends to be a dinosaur, a reminder he keeps a playful curiosity alongside deep technical rigor.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Fdsc (Year One) Web Technology, Fdsc (Year One) Web Technology at Truro CollegeBachelor of Science (BSc) Computing, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computing at University of Plymouth
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Github Skills (75)
hedera10
hedera-hashgraph10
crypto9
rest9
hashgraph9
rest-api9
blockchain9
ethereum9
ethereum-wallet8
solidity8
dlt8
android-app8
dotenv7
mobile-application7
ethereum-dapp7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
sportsicon/unibar-prototype
May 2021 - Jun 2021
Unibar prototype, on a delicious base of NextJS, Prisma and Tailwind.
Contributions:9 reviews, 20 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 month
reacttailwindcssprismatailwinddelicious
trustenterprises/laravel-hashgraph
Sep 2020 - Nov 2022
Plug-in to the power of Hedera Hashgraph through your Laravel application
Contributions:12 releases, 75 commits, 27 PRs in 2 years 2 months
hedera-hashgraphlaravel
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