Oliver Matthews
Senior Systems Software Engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolOliver Matthews is a Senior Systems Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and leading storage-focused product teams, currently a technical lead at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. He combines deep hands-on expertise across storage systems, I/O stacks and platform engineering with a customer-focused, technology-agnostic approach honed at IBM and HPE. Oliver has a track record of shipping maintainable, scalable solutions—from build and integration tooling to next-gen storage products—and has led teams through complex architectures and deliveries. He contributes to open-source work on well-known projects like Overleaf, improving backend file storage flexibility and configuration maintainability. Trained in Computing (AI) at Imperial College London, he brings both rigorous engineering discipline and practical systems-level judgment to challenging infrastructure problems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical leader who prefers durable, testable designs over shiny trends.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng), Computing (AI), 2.1 (Hons), Master of Engineering (MEng), Computing (AI), 2.1 (Hons) at Imperial College London
English, French
Github Skills (5)
coffeescript10
nodejs9
configuration-management9
testing8
amazon-s38
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
overleaf/overleaf
Feb 2014 - Mar 2014
A web-based collaborative LaTeX editor
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits in 15 days
Contributions summary:Oliver's commits primarily focus on modifying the file storage service within the Overleaf repository. The changes include creating mixins for backend switching, moving test wrappers, and refactoring configurations related to file storage and the underlying persistor manager. They've also updated the filestore backend configuration and test files, suggesting a focus on improving the flexibility and maintainability of the file storage system. Further changes include refactoring config settings and the email setup to move from node-ses to nodemailer.
latex
cwoac/thingy_grabber
Nov 2019 - Oct 2020
Script for archiving thingiverse things
Contributions:16 releases, 1 review, 58 commits in 11 months
thingiverse
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