Matt Smith
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorMatt Hillsdon is a Web Tech Lead based in Manchester with nine years of professional experience building and guiding teams to deliver production web platforms. He combines hands-on engineering in Docker/Kubernetes, Spring Boot microservices and React/TypeScript frontends with proven Agile and architectural leadership from long tenures at CoreFiling and the Micro:bit Educational Foundation. Comfortable moving between code and strategy, he focuses on reliable, maintainable systems that support educational and enterprise use cases. His background as a technical architect gives him a pragmatic view of trade-offs, and he often bridges product and engineering to turn complex requirements into clear delivery plans. A University of Warwick computer science graduate, he brings steady technical stewardship and a knack for simplifying distributed systems for teams.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
adafruit9
bbc-micro9
minecraft9
blockly8
makecode8
javascript6
micropython6
typescript5
editor4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
microbit-foundation/dev-docs
Aug 2017 - Nov 2017
The content of the tech.microbit.org site
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 3 months
microbit
bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
A MicroPython editor for the BBC micro:bit that works with browsers.
Contributions:9 commits in 2 days
bbc-micromicropython
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