London, England, United Kingdom

Matt Melton

Tech Lead · Cloud & Quantitative Developer

15 years of commercial software engineering across 7 of the top 10 TIOBE languages. Specialising in high-level architecture, performance-sensitive development, and technical leadership in energy trading and financial services. Particular interest in low-level programming, the Linux kernel, and functional languages.

LinkedIn Download CV

Experience

Shell

London, United Kingdom

Trading & Supply

–Tech Lead on Complex Forward Valuations — extended Endur (ETRM) to value complex storage deals using in-house quantitative models including Monte Carlo simulation and binomial tree pricing.
–Led the zero-downtime migration of high-profile projects, including the Systematic Trading desk, between Azure tenants.
–Subject matter expert for technology queries spanning cloud connectivity, performance engineering, authentication, high availability, and data architecture.
–Authored internal tooling including a bespoke Terraform provider (Go), a Git repository provisioning service (Node.js/Python), and a package manager gateway (NGINX).
–Championed organisation-wide improvements to code quality and dependency vulnerability scanning across Shell Energy.
–Delivered proof-of-concept templates in C#, Python, and Node.js to accelerate DevOps adoption whilst preserving a developer-friendly local development loop.

Meltancy Ltd

London, United Kingdom

Independent Consultancy

–Delivered cloud-native architecture and development services to industry leaders in the City of London.
–Practice areas included full-stack development, DevOps, architecture review, agile planning, and technical training.
–Built microservices on Azure and Kubernetes using C# .NET Core, TypeScript, Angular, Azure Functions, and Cosmos DB.

Niaxo

London, United Kingdom

Public Sector / Data Governance

Altius @ bp Plc

City of London, United Kingdom

Financial Services / Energy

Clarksons Platou

London, United Kingdom

Shipping & Maritime

Deloitte Consulting

London, United Kingdom

Management Consulting

–Hired to lead the rewrite and re-platforming of a consulting solution delivering over £100m of annual benefits to global clients, scaling it into a commercial product with a 15+ person engineering team.
–Migrated a legacy SQL Server platform to near real-time AWS Lambda, Batch/Fargate, PostgreSQL, and Redshift — achieving a 90% reduction in per-tenant infrastructure costs.
–Engineered a serverless map-reduce pipeline replacing an unscalable TSQL implementation, leveraging Redshift/PostgreSQL for aggregation, AWS S3 for storage, and AWS Batch/Lambda for computation.
–Technical role split: 30% agile planning, 30% critical feature development, 30% mentoring, and 10% BAU.

Centaur Media Plc

London, United Kingdom

Media & Publishing

–Full-stack developer on Centaur's intelligence subscription portfolio using Angular 1.4+, TypeScript, Entity Framework, Apache Solr, Neo4j, and SQL Server.
–Delivered solutions to complex backend architectural challenges including OAuth 2.0 authorisation, distributed caching, and bespoke SPA analytics.
–Guided adoption of new development methodologies, refactored technical debt, and coordinated external development via a global outsourcing partner.

Yecco

London, United Kingdom

Social Technology

–Developed high-value features, addressed technical debt, and introduced BDD practices across a social network platform built with C# ASP.NET, WebAPI 2, and SQL Server.

Oppolis Software

West Midlands, United Kingdom

Creative Technology

–Contributed to GoPublish and GoMobile — with work featuring across more than 20 whitelabel applications on the App Store. Notable clients include Motor Sport, Peugeot, Morrisons, and EE.
–Built a cross-platform C++11 business API targeting Windows, Android, and iOS — including a platform abstraction layer, XML-to-JSON parser, and JNI bindings via SWIG for Java support.
–Developed a multi-tenant message broker (C# Windows Service) with a REST backend and SignalR front-end supporting GCMS, APNS, and ADM push notifications.
–Delivered a .NET MVC backend, a real-time WCF management console, and an animated HTML5/SVG magazine reader front-end.

Games Workshop Plc

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Entertainment & Retail

–Led iOS development on the Black Library Reader and White Dwarf Magazine applications, covering the full product lifecycle from prototype to App Store release.
–Built native iOS features including an eBook reader, in-app purchase storefront, OpenGL 3D page curl animation, a threaded download-extract-checksum engine, and an Illustrator-style Bezier path editor.
–Developed macOS tooling including a Bezier path editor exporting to HTML5 Canvas and SVG, and a RESTful structured text editor.

Skills

Cloud & DevOps

AzureAWSKubernetesDockerTerraformAnsibleNGINXAzure DevOpsGitHub ActionsJFrog ArtifactorySonarQubeMend

Languages

C# / .NET CorePythonTypeScriptJavaScriptC++11SQL

Frontend

Next.jsReactAngularSignalRNGRX

Databases

PostgreSQLAzure Cosmos DBSQL ServerAmazon Redshift

Architecture

ServerlessMicroservicesDomain-Driven DesignEvent-Driven ArchitectureHigh Availability

AI & GenAI

Claude APILLMsPrompt EngineeringAgentic SystemsRAGClaude Code

Domain Expertise

Energy Trading (ETRM/Endur)Quantitative FinanceMonte Carlo SimulationBinomial Tree PricingData GovernanceFinancial Services

Education

BSc Computer Systems (Hons)

University of Liverpool

2003 – 2006

A low-level image processing GUI in C++

MSc Computer Games Systems

Nottingham Trent University

2006 – 2007

Collision detection within the GPU

Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL)

Nottingham Law School

2007 – 2008

The Freedom of Information Act is a failure — Discuss

Legal Practice Course (LPC)

Nottingham Law School

2009 – 2010

Certified ADRgroup Mediator