Matthew Ward
Solution Lead at Amach
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Ward is a Solution Lead and seasoned software engineering leader with 11 years of experience delivering scalable fintech and e-commerce platforms from London. He has progressed from hands-on development to head-of-engineering roles, leading migrations to microservices, performance optimisations for high-traffic events, and building resilient DR and agile practices across distributed teams. At Quidco and Lendable he combined technical architecture, hiring and operational restructuring to stabilise platforms serving millions of users and to drive profitable, repeatable delivery. Recently returned to work after a 15-month stint as a stay-at-home dad during an adoption, he brings practical empathy and mentorship to teams alongside deep technical chops. Known for pragmatically introducing modern tooling, testing and deployment practices in conservative environments, he excels at turning legacy systems into maintainable, production-ready services.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BTEC National Diploma Software Development, BTEC National Diploma Software Development at City College CoventryMEng (Hons) Computer Science/Software Engineering, MEng (Hons) Computer Science/Software Engineering at University of BirminghamPrince William School, Oundle
English, French, German
Github Skills (111)
wkhtmltopdf10
gherkin10
aws10
html-to-pdf10
addon10
api9
qpdf9
roku9
csv9
behat9
terraform9
amazon-fire-tv9
parser9
pdftk9
excel9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mdjward/jenkins-freestyle-semanticversioning
Jan 2015 - Mar 2016
Jenkins plugin to maintain project-level (or shared) semantic versioning, based on zafarkhaja/jsemver.
Contributions:3 releases, 33 commits, 11 pushes in 1 year 2 months
jenkinsjenkins-plugingitflowjenkins-api-pluginresharper
byng-systems/ant-parallel-apply-task
Jan 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 11 months
configurablecontrolledant-taskapachemultiple-files
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