Summary
Matthew Thomas is an Azure Solution Architect with eight years' experience designing and delivering enterprise-grade systems across healthcare and insurance, now focused on cloud-native architecture and infrastructure at Howden. He combines hands-on .NET and C# development with strong expertise in API design, Terraform-based infrastructure-as-code, and Azure platform services to modernise legacy systems and build secure, scalable services. At the NHS he led application and infrastructure architecture for national platforms, drove Azure migrations, and championed CI/CD and DevOps practices across teams. A practical HNC-qualified technologist, he mentors engineers, sets coding and operational standards, and translates security and compliance requirements into repeatable deployment pipelines. He’s equally comfortable sketching high-level solutions and authoring the Terraform modules that make them reproducible in production.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
IT Apprenticeship Level 4 - Professional Competence for IT and Telecoms Professionals Diploma Information Technology, IT Apprenticeship Level 4 - Professional Competence for IT and Telecoms Professionals Diploma Information Technology at Fareham College
St John's College Southsea