Profile
Founder of Amplir, a technical consultancy built on nearly a decade at CME Group delivering frontend performance, cloud architecture, and real-time messaging for tier-one trading systems. Through Amplir, I bring that enterprise-grade rigour to organisations in fintech, trading technology, data platforms, and enterprise SaaS.
Skills
Node.js, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, AWS, GCP, Cloud Architecture, Real-Time Data Systems, AI/ML Integration, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), API Design, Data Pipelines, FIX Protocol, WebSockets, Financial Services, Agile/Scrum
Experience
Technical consultancy delivering high-performance data systems and platforms. Recent work includes real-time betting odds aggregation infrastructure — ingesting, normalising, and serving fast-moving data at scale across multiple bookmaker APIs.
Previously delivered an AI-powered legal research platform that processed over 230,000 UK legal decisions with sub-200ms search, integrating LLMs for issue tagging, metadata extraction, summarisation, and contextual retrieval.
End-to-end ownership across engagements: cloud architecture, frontend and backend development, real-time messaging, and AI/ML integration into production systems.
Co-founded a developer-focused platform for parsing and analysing FIX (Financial Information eXchange) messages used across global trading infrastructure.
Led technical direction including the design of AI-powered tools for FIX message debugging, analysis, and automated trading workflows. Enhanced developer experience for engineering teams at major financial institutions.
Technical lead of a team delivering the EBS Workstation, a large-scale forex trading platform used by central banks and institutional traders globally.
Led frontend performance optimisation and cloud architecture initiatives, establishing best practices for scalable, low-latency web applications across distributed teams.
Mentored senior engineers and shaped engineering culture within the wider frontend organisation.
Delivered critical real-time messaging and data visualisation features for trading platforms handling millions of daily transactions. Architected cloud-native solutions on AWS, improving system reliability and reducing infrastructure costs.
Built high-throughput frontend applications for market data and order management systems. Contributed to the migration of legacy systems to modern React-based architectures with real-time WebSocket integrations.
Developed responsive, cross-browser trading interfaces serving global users. Established frontend testing practices and contributed to shared component libraries used across multiple product teams.
Led a development team building web applications and digital products. Owned end-to-end delivery including UX/UI design, responsive web development, and cross-browser testing for a diverse client portfolio.
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“Matthew is one of the best. He’s a pleasure to work with, understands and executes requirements very easily, has excellent common sense, and he has impeccable technical ability. Most importantly, he gets stuff done. He works hard and completes the job, and when it’s done, it’s done well.”
“Matt’s mastery of everything frontend is remarkable and his commitment to delivering high-quality work is unparalleled. He possesses a deep understanding of UI performance, and I have always been impressed with his ability to optimise and streamline code for the best possible user experience. I wholeheartedly recommend Matt as a key member of any agile team.”