Matt Hall, Developer in Manchester, United Kingdom
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Matt Hall

Verified Expert  in Engineering

Software Developer

Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Toptal Member Since
September 17, 2013

As a full-time developer and part-time entrepreneur, Matt appreciates the need for shipping features and writing quality code. In his eyes, a feature is not complete until it has been tested and documented, a sign of his dedication.

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Heroku, GitHub, Git, Atom, MacOS

The most amazing...

...site I've scaled grew from roughly zero traffic to approximately 500,000 visitors per day, all in under a week.

Work Experience

Director

2010 - PRESENT
Code Beef Ltd
  • Consulted and developed web applications for several companies.
  • Built and integrated iOS apps with back-end APIs.
  • Managed remote teams.
  • Helped introduce good development practices (including testing, source control, and unified style).
  • Worked under extremely tight deadlines and budgets.
Technologies: JavaScript, Objective-C, Ruby

Senior Developer

2008 - 2010
Fudge Studios Ltd
  • Worked with a wide variety of clients, from startups to large companies.
  • Worked face-to-face with clients to assess needs as necessary.
  • Built a CMS generator system which allowed for the rapid setup of client apps.
  • Developed an extremely ambitious iOS app for an external agency in just four weeks.
  • Introduced git and Scrum.

Director

2005 - 2008
Kyotee Ltd
  • Built web app from scratch.
  • Grew business from nothing to break-even and well beyond.
  • Created several bespoke tools to minimize daily maintenance work.
  • Split tested and optimized checkout process.
  • Created accounting systems and monitoring tools to ensure that the business was in good health.
Technologies: JavaScript, Ruby, PHP

Developer

2002 - 2005
GPC Computer Software Ltd
  • Built a custom, fault-tolerant serial communication protocol.
  • Worked with a maximum of 640Kb of memory.
  • Developed a graph drawing library that integrated with existing accounting programs.
  • Created a bespoke, secure web application that integrated with an existing customer system.
  • Analyzed and debugged complex problems.
Technologies: C++, C

Bouldr (WIP)

A website for climbers.

Bouldr iOS App

Now semi-defunct, this was the iPhone interface for Bouldr.

Dvour

A recipe management app.

England Squash and Racketball

CMS and web app for England Squash and Racketball.

Coloursoup

CMS and web app for an online fine art store.

Languages

JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, SQL, C, CoffeeScript, Sass, Objective-C, C++

Frameworks

Ruby on Rails (RoR)

Libraries/APIs

jQuery, ThinkingSphinx, Facebook API

Tools

GitHub, Subversion (SVN), Git, Sublime Text, Zsh, Atom, MacVim

Other

Content Management Systems (CMS), OAuth

Paradigms

Agile Software Development, Scrum, Object-oriented Programming (OOP)

Platforms

iOS, MacOS, Heroku, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ubuntu

Storage

MySQL, Memcached, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch

1999 - 2002

Bachelor of Science (Hons.) Degree in Computer Science

University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology - Manchester, UK

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