Matt Dobson

Hello, I'm Matt Dobson

Internet Solutions Consultant | DevOps Automation Specialist | Web Development Team Lead | Enterprise Systems Design | Innovative Automation Developer | Serverless Technical Architect

+44 (0)20 3318 5846
London | Midlands | UK

Matt Dobson

Internet Solutions Consultant, DevOps Automation Specialist, Web Development Team Lead, Enterprise Systems Design, Innovative Automation Developer, Serverless Technical Architect.

Skillset

Agile SDLC Team Leadership
Enterprise Systems Design
Cloud & Serverless Architecture
Web Design and Development
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

ICAgile - Agile Product Ownership AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate AWS Certified Developer - Associate

Professional Profile

Professional IT Consultant and Manager with 25 years IT experience within the Financial Services sector of London, across a broad spectrum of technology disciplines, including cloud, development, databases, servers, networking, DevOps, BCP/DR.

Specialising in architecting solutions to automation projects and utilising a global workforce to drive the delivery of multiple development projects. Focus areas include DevOps & Infrastructure Automation, Cloud & Serverless Architecture, and building Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions.

20 years providing development solutions to blue-chip companies. Experienced in the entire product lifecycle, business analysis, application architecture, data modeling and development (NodeJS, Angular, AWS Lambda, C#, Java, Python, SQL, ASP.NET MVC, HTML/CSS/Javascript)

15 years running internet services company providing public facing internet solutions and ecommerce to small businesses, and intranet solutions to large organisations.

10 years agile project leadership experience, and a lifetime of interest in computing.

Years of Development

m+

Lines of quality code

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Happy customers

What I can do?

After investing 28 years in to IT and software engineering, here are a few highlights:

Manage Worldwide Workforce

Manage the development efforts of multiple talented development teams across the globe.

Architect Enterprise Solutions

Engineer world class solutions for enterprise businesses which are robust, scalable, and extensible.

Provide Internet Consultancy

Review the operations of a business and the customer profile to design a solution that will hit the target demographic and exceed the expectations of the business.

Web Design and Development

Build structured web solutions that are intuitive, responsive to mobile devices, incorporate industry leading development standards and smart interactive systems.

Cloud Computing

Deliver public cloud computing and serverless architecture within financially regulated enterprise organisations.

Automation

Design and implement automated solutions to ANY scenario, anything is possible, it just takes an idea to make it happen.

Always looking for the next great opportunity...

I am currently working on various projects, but open to new opportunities to lead innovative development projects within progressive organisations, as well as freelance projects for smaller businesses.

Contact me

CV

My experience and education.

Experience

Head of DevOps Automation | CI/CD Product Owner

Building self-service automation framework that makes DevOps accessible to application teams across the bank. Ephemeral pipelines, continuous integration tools, continuous deployment to AWS and on-prem, and opinionated CI/CD patterns delivery.

Barclays CTO

2019 - present

Public Cloud Enablement | Serverless Product Owner

Member of a the pioneering cloud enablement team delivering public cloud and serverless architecture for application development teams across the enterprise.

Barclays Infrastructure

2016 - 2018

Head of Automation Engineering

Managing a global team of 35 talented developers to create automation solutions for infrastructure projects, including IaaS Cloud, Network, VDI, Virtualisation.

Barclays Capital

2009 - 2016

Technical Director - Internet Solutions Consultant

Lead the business to design and develop web fronted solutions, using smart data driven techniques, to enhance the business operations of both large corporations and small businesses.

MDTS UK Limited

2004 - present

Technical Director

Co-founder and director of technology operations and development for the innovative pre-employment screening SaaS product. Driving business value, best practices, cloud computing and serverless architecture.

Senior Developer

Architect and develop enterprise solutions to infrastructure problems.

Various Financial Institutions

1997 - 2009

Education

B.Sc. (Hons) Computer Science

Honors Degree in Computer Science

Sheffield

1993 - 1997

Professional

AWS Certified Professional

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

AWS Certified Developer - Associate

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate AWS Certified Developer - Associate

ICAgile Certified Professional

Agile Product Ownership - Professional


GitLab Certified Professional

GitLab Certified Git Associate

ICAgile - Agile Product Ownership     GitLab Certified Git Associate

Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)

Microsoft Certified Professional with Internet (MCP+I)


PRINCE2 Practitioner

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer PRINCE2 Practitioner

Contact Me

Anything is possible, all you need is an idea and the desire. If you don't think your idea is possible, let me help change your thinking.

"Matt Dobson", turning inspiration into reality since 1975

  • London | Midlands | UK
  • +44 (0)20 3318 5846
  • www.matthewdobson.com
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