Matt Davidson

5.0

(50 reviews)

US$50.00

For every 15 mins

Sessions/Jobs

First 15 mins free for your first session

ABOUT ME

Highly rated Python, Java & Javascript expert

Staff-level backend engineer with 13+ years of experience designing and delivering distributed systems acrossinsurance, government and enterprise software. Hands-on technical leader spanning multiple teams, with deep expertise in Python, AWS serverless, Agentic Development, AI-powered document processing and large-scale backend architecture. Proven track record owning critical systems from discovery through production, improving engineering velocity, reducing operational costs and mentoring engineers from graduate to Staff level.

English

Pretoria (+02:00)

Joined June 2017

EXPERTISE

Python

10 years experience | 9 endorsements

I have experience writing and teaching Python for over 12 years. I taught Python at a top UK University and used lead teams using it with...

I have experience writing and teaching Python for over 12 years. I taught Python at a top UK University and used lead teams using it with two of Europe's leading Security Consultancies. I sat on multiple code standard boards for small teams and large companies encouraging best practice idiomatic Python. I'm comfortable using Python 3.X, Flask, and Django. My preferred tooling is Pycharm, tox, pytest and black.

JavaScript

10 years experience | 2 endorsements

I have been writing Javascript for over 10 years. Most recently I have been using React with Typescript, Jest, Prettier, and Webpack to c...

I have been writing Javascript for over 10 years. Most recently I have been using React with Typescript, Jest, Prettier, and Webpack to create Rest and Graphql applications.

Es6 React TypeScript Angular jQuery

PostgreSQL

11 years experience

I have used Postgres for academic and Industry projects for over 10 years. I have experience using Hibernate, Spring Data, H2, SQLite, an...

I have used Postgres for academic and Industry projects for over 10 years. I have experience using Hibernate, Spring Data, H2, SQLite, and SQLAlchemy. I use Liquibase and Alembic to manage data migrations.

Hibernate ORM Spring data SQLAlchemy

Hibernate ORM Spring data SQLAlchemy SQLite H2

8 years experience

4 years experience

3 years experience

4 years experience | 1 endorsement

I reviewed resume for applicants to a top international technology consultancy for 3.5 years. I can review your CV as a potential employe...

I reviewed resume for applicants to a top international technology consultancy for 3.5 years. I can review your CV as a potential employer and dramatically improve the way future employers view your job application. I have successfully coached 10s of people through job application processes leading to an excellent application with much higher salary. Whether you are looking for your first programming job or are taking the next step on the career ladder, I can help you land your dream job or promotion.

Curriculum vitaeResume WritingJob search

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REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS

5.0

(50 reviews)

Dowey Baothman

April 2019

amazing session, I learned a lot more in one session with Matt than the previous 3 weeks in my university classroom.

AAli

February 2019

Had a live session with him and helped me with my resume. Was very helpful and highlighted a lot of great points.

Andrew Webber

February 2019

Great mentor walked me through every step of my problem. Could not ask for more!

Mark White

February 2019

Matt is amazing! Took the time to make sure I understood what was happening.

AAli

February 2019

Does a great job answering Java questions

David Johnson

February 2019

Helped me within the 15 minutes, and did it free of charge. Saw my problem right away and told me what the mistake was and how to fix it. I will be going to Matt for any other issues I will have in the future.

Jonathan Weinberger

February 2019

Matt was quick and excellent! Taught me a few things and helped me figure out how to resolve my problem! Highly Recommend.

Omid Mardi

February 2019

Matt was extremely helpful and confident in his knowledge. He had lots of experience with Maven and Java and helped get understand and solve my problem. Definitely recommend!

Hez Alif

February 2019

Awesome feedback in a timely manner!

Rebecca

June 2017

Matt was a patient and thoughtful mentor, I found the session to be extremely useful. He gave great advice for my CV, both specific to mine and general points for me to improve in the future. Would highly recommend!

SOCIAL PRESENCE

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EMPLOYMENTS

Senior Software Engineer

ManyPets

2020-05-01-Present

- Owned the architecture and delivery of business-critical systems from discovery through production,

partnering with senior sta...

- Owned the architecture and delivery of business-critical systems from discovery through production,

partnering with senior stakeholders across engineering, product and operations.

- Designed a claims automation platform processing £1M+ per month in insurance workflows.

- Led the modernisation of legacy Flask/Django services, increasing deployment frequency from weekly

releases to 10+ deployments/day while expanding automated test coverage from 50 end-to-end tests

(30 mins) to 1,500 tests (10 secs).

- Built AI-powered OCR and document processing pipelines using Textract, reducing insurance claim

overpayments by 20% annually.

- Engineered production ML pipelines processing 5000+ requests/hour and prototyped LLM-powered

workflows using Sagemaker, GPT and Amazon Bedrock.

- Mentored engineers, interviewed candidates through Staff level

- Delivered a replacement task management platform in 3 weeks with agentic engineering, saving six

figures annually.

Python

Django

MongoDB

Python

Django

MongoDB

Flask

Amazon S3

Amazon SQS

Sagemaker

Fastapi

Aws (eks, bedrock)

Remote Software Consultant

mattjdavidson.com

2019-02-01-Present

- Wrote a successful technical proposal for SME who gained six-figure (£) funding from the Defense and Security Accelerator (UK). - Devel...

- Wrote a successful technical proposal for SME who gained six-figure (£) funding from the Defense and Security Accelerator (UK). - Developed Facial Recognition with system as an offline alternative to Azure Face Cognitive Service. (Flask, OpenCV, Postgres, Azure Kubernetes Service) - Designed and developed a distributed personnel tracking system. (React, Typescript, Spring Boot, Azure Kubernetes Service) - Highly rated mentor in Java, Python, Typescript, Javascript, React, C and Software Delivery.

Python

Java

Flask

Python

Java

Flask

OpenCV

Azure

TypeScript

React

JavaScript

Staff Software Engineer (A8)

Capgemini

2015-07-01-2019-01-01

- Staff Software Engineer (Python, Java, Spring Boot, Apache Camel, Docker, Kubernetes) - Agile Team leadership and coaching. - Techni...

- Staff Software Engineer (Python, Java, Spring Boot, Apache Camel, Docker, Kubernetes) - Agile Team leadership and coaching. - Technical Reviewing and Mentoring. - Line management and coaching. - Provide in person delivery of Agile training courses. - Behavioural based and technical interviewing.

Python

Java

Apache Camel

Python

Java

Apache Camel

Docker

Spring Boot

Kubernetes