I'm passionate about enabling high performing engineering teams to solve scaling challenges and deliver products users love to use.
With over two decades of success in the startup world, I work with engineering leaders, and teams of all sizes, to identify and address weak points and enable rapid delivery of great products users love to use.
When a key resource leaves a company, it's often difficult to hire a replacement. With an ever decreasing pool of experienced executives, and the inherent risk of hiring an inexperienced engineer, bringing an interim CTO onto the team for 3-6 months to ease the transition, or even to help recruit a replacement, is an increasingly popular approach to the problem.
In times of uncertainty it can be invaluable to have a strong technical leader on the team to help guide the tech function, and prepare for your next stage of growth. Whether that's a few days a week, or a month, having the confidence that your engineering teams are being overseen by safe hands, provides peace of mind so you can focus on the rest of the business.
Having a mentor is something every leader benefits from, whether they're at the beginning of their journey into leadership, or they've been doing it for many years. The value in having somebody on hand that you trust, to talk to when you need it, is hard to quantify. Whether you're planning for the future and want to consider all the options, when facing a challenge you haven't faced before, or when thrown an expected curve ball, we all have times when some outside help is invaluable.
For people walking their first steps into leadership, it is quickly apparent that the skills which made them successful aren't sufficient to succeed at the next stage. From people management to hiring, engineering priorities to a pragmatic business focused approach, there are any number of new challenges to tackle and skills to learn if your tech leadership is going to provide lasting business value.
Through weekly coaching sessions I will guide and support you through the challenges you face, and help you to develop the skills you need to step into the role.
Matt On Demand offers my extensive experience and expertise when you need it most. Whether you need strategic guidance in a technical meeting, assistance filling a resource gap through interviewing, or somebody to guide infrastrucure design. Let's work together through the most challenging periods of your business when they arise.
Have significant team inefficiencies, but you're not sure where? Perhaps the business is struggling to reach its full potential, or teams are bogged down with ever increasing workloads and struggling to deliver basic product improvements. Rarely is there a single pain point when this happens.
Over the space of a few weeks I will work closely with the executive team and the existing engineering function, to perform root cause analysis of the problems that you're facing across multiple different disciplines. I'll present the business with my findings, along with a strategic roadmap with specific timelines and steps required to discover the true potential of your business.
Matt is a rare combination of a widely admired leader who is also a strong technologist respected by the most demanding developers. He's pragmatic, talks human and is a great bloke. He takes extreme levels of personal ownership to ensure the job is done. Can't recommend him highly enough!
Matt has provided me with excellent advice on a number of occasions, when starting out as a CTO his recommendations on team structure and building a strong engineering culture were invaluable. He's skillful at striking the right balance between delivering at pace and mitigating technical debt, depending on a company's growth stage.
Matt is one of the most innovative, efficient and incredibly fast-moving IT professionals I've ever worked with. If I ever needed something complex delivered quickly with no fuss, I chose him every time.
Joining after our startup phase, Matt made an immediate impact, guiding us through key tech decisions and significantly enhancing our technology platform's stability and growth. His skills in building a talented and diverse engineering team have been pivotal in advancing our mission. Through strategic foresight, Matt developed a clear and ambitious product roadmap, aligning perfectly with our business goals and ensuring TAKUMI remains agile and competitive.
Matt's extensive experience as a technology leader from start-ups to scale-ups enables him to provide truly unique insights across a wide variety of issues. His advice has helped us overcome a number of key obstacles from infrastructure planning to organizational procedures and hiring. He always goes above and beyond what is asked of him and is determined to solve any problem at hand.
I had a pleasure of working alongside Matt for over a year and can highly recommend him as CTO. He is a brilliant engineer and a leader that was very well respected by the team and the company. His strategic thinking was always several steps ahead and all the projects were carefully planned and laid out. Matt brought a lot of structure to the team and to the business while at the same time being a hands-on engineering wizard with a vast technical knowledge, which was very much appreciated. I believe any company will benefit greatly from his leadership and I would be delighted to work with Matt together again in the future.