Dr. Matthew Nesbit Email and Phone Number

As a software developer with a long and varied experience I have always been passionate about exploring new ideas, technologies and the latest academic research. I am currently searching for a new challenge to excite me, ideally within a small, dynamic, team that can provide me with a collaborative and intellectually stimulating environment. I value roles with the autonomy to innovate and enjoy being offered new hands-on learning opportunities.I have proven skills in taking ideas from the whiteboard and academic papers and forging this into structured code and ultimately into reliable products that customers can trust. Often this involves navigating the gaps between theory and practice and finding the best engineering solution. Examples I am particularly proud of from my career include: Creating an innovative collision avoiding communication algorithms for oil sensors; Squeezing a DMB digital video stack onto a new low-cost DSP processor in only 3 months; Deploying a complete replacement foreign exchange trading platform to traders in only 4 months and being involved in creating the Corda Enterprise blockchain system at R3.I am highly skilled at conceptualising complete codebases as a system and in previous companies, I have often become essential to bug triage and analysis as well as responsible for explaining the system subtleties to new developers and customers. With my direct experience of building complex, distributed, multi-threaded system, I have also cultivated a very strong and structured approach to tracking down the root cause of issues and finding permanent solutions to difficult non-deterministic problems. These experiences have also taught me how to manage very large and complex release instructions and I have the skills to manage complex business requirements working closely with the stake holders. I always aim to design software with structures that allow it to grow and evolve and have lots of experience of safely managing backward (and forward) compatibility issues.At my last employer, R3, I was heavily involved in developing the original core ledger software and secure communication protocols, some of which were awarded a patent. I often worked with client security teams so that they could understand the blockchain security algorithms and to align product features to their various security policies. As Chief Architect I was also heavily involved in the early design of the Corda next generation system.