Matthew Starkey
Owner at The Startup Foundry
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolMatthew Starkey is a founder and hands-on software developer with 11 years of experience building scalable web and mobile products, now running Startup Foundry from Durban to help entrepreneurs launch investor-ready MVPs quickly and cost-effectively. He combines full-stack expertise (Next.js, NestJS, Flutter, PostgreSQL, Firebase) with product architecture, UX work, and cloud deployments to move ideas from validation to launch in weeks rather than months. His background ranges from banking and security systems at Derivco and ITALKPTT to leading engineering at channl, giving him rare fluency across regulated enterprise systems and fast-moving startups. Matthew’s studio-centric approach—running development, design, and infrastructure under one roof—keeps agency overhead low while preserving technical rigor. He also prototypes AI-enabled products like Bastion AI and Hiyu, showing a practical interest in applying AI to documentation and recruitment workflows.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Open WindowUniversity of Johannesburg 
Github Skills (20)
angular7
firebase6
nodejs6
sdk6
firebase-cloud-messaging5
firebase-admin5
material-design5
infrastructure5
firebase-authentication4
admin4
flutter4
firestore3
dart3
firebase-db3
firebase-database2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mattstarkey/rtsp-streamer
Jul 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:125 commits, 114 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
matt1610/Bronze
Mar 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:85 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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