Matthew Swain
Staff Engineer at Dext
Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatthew Swain is a Staff Engineer with 12 years of professional experience and a strong background in data and infrastructure across both Windows/.NET and Debian/Linux environments. He combines hands-on skills in SQL Server, PowerShell, Bash, Python and C# with practical DevOps experience—building automation, configuration management and data pipelines that keep large production estates reliable. Matthew has led data engineering teams, recruited and planned work to balance BAU with new feature delivery, and introduced cloud-native tools and Apache Spark for high-volume data tasks. Comfortable operating at the intersection of application, data and operations, he prefers working within cross-functional teams that own services end-to-end and is actively exploring containerization and public cloud patterns. Based in Nottingham, he brings a pragmatic, automation-first approach informed by repeated migrations and platform hardening across retail, SaaS and property-data businesses.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Biochemistry and Genetics, Bachelor's Degree Biochemistry and Genetics at University of Nottingham
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Github Skills (67)
slack-bot10
python10
websocket10
terraform10
aiohttp-client10
terraform-module10
aiohttp10
websocket-client10
slack10
terraform-provider10
aws10
health9
asyncio9
xero8
go-language8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dext/xero-php
Jun 2021 - Aug 2024
A php library for the Xero API, with a cleaner OAuth interface and ORM-like abstraction.
Contributions:6 reviews, 4 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 years 1 month
apiphpxerooauth2php-library
matthewswain/HonestyShop
May 2014 - Apr 2021
Contributions:81 commits, 3 PRs, 9 pushes in 7 years
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