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
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (98)
hashgraph10
cryptocurrency10
crypto10
hedera10
credits10
offset10
baking10
ethereum10
hedera-hashgraph9
ledger9
api9
guardian9
governance9
lifecycle9
cryptography9
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
dovuofficial/hedera-hardhat-tooling
Apr 2022 - Aug 2022
One click deployment and testing with Hedera Hashgraph smart contracts
Contributions:2 releases, 4 reviews, 74 commits in 4 months
under-the-radarone-clickdeploymenttestingsolidity
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