Richard Matthews
Web Developer at Boost
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Matthews is a Wellington-based full stack web developer with 11 years of professional experience building pragmatic, user-focused web products. He specializes in Ruby on Rails, MySQL, HTML/CSS, JavaScript and web infrastructure, and has delivered projects across agencies and education sectors before joining Boost in 2015. Richard favors simple, maintainable solutions to complex problems and has a background in interactive and web development training from Natcoll. Comfortable spanning front-end to back-end concerns, he combines hands-on coding with client-facing problem solving and product delivery. Outside client work he maintains a personal portfolio showcasing his practical approach to design and development.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Wellington CollegeLevel 6 Web Development, Web, Level 6 Web Development, Web at Natcoll Design TechnologyNatcoll
Github Skills (182)
controller10
gcp10
ingress-nginx10
haproxy10
k8s10
api10
linode10
kubernetes10
kops10
go10
ingress-controller10
docker10
ingress10
nginx-controller10
aws10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
boost/pco_harvester
Mar 2024 - Jul 2024
A proof of concept for a new way that data can get into the API.
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 24 PRs in 4 months
DigitalNZ/supplejack_harvester
Apr 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:9 releases, 141 reviews, 124 PRs in 1 year 11 months
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