About me

I build tools to help people create better websites.

Short speaker bio

Matt is an Astro core maintainer from Bristol, UK. After a brief career as a baker and pastry chef, he's spent over 25 years building for the web. He is a senior principal engineer at Cloudflare, working on frameworks and dev tools for Workers.

Matt was previously a Gatsby core maintainer, a principal engineer on the frameworks team at Netlify, and has probably contributed to your favourite web framework. Matt created the Unpic image library and has a sideline selling the world's fastest LED camera flash.

Headshot • Web • Bluesky • GitHub

Long bio

I am a product-minded software engineer, with over 25 years of experience building for the web. I started out as a pastry chef, but moved into coding in my teens. Most of my early career was as a founder, but in recent years I have been building open source dev tools. I am a senior principal engineeer at Cloudflare, where I help make Workers a great place to deploy web frameworks. I am a core maintainer of the Astro framework and was previously employed by Astro to work as framework lead. Previously I was a principal engineer at Netlify, working on the frameworks team. Before that I worked at Gatsby, on the framework team.

I love the open web and open source software, and have contributed to a large number of open source projects over the years, including most modern web frameworks.

I build a lot of photography and image tools, even though I'm not much of a photographer myself. My very first startup was creating tools for panoramic photography. I co-founded a company building app-based camera triggers. I then created the world's fastest camera flash. In more recent years, I worked on creating Gatsby's image plugin, and most recently I created Unpic, a multi-framework component library and toolkit for displaying images on the web with around 30k weekly downloads.

I live in the south-west of England with my wife and two children. I like baking and fermenting things, and making and drinking beer and cocktails.