Matthew Harwood

Software Engineer specialising in Agentic AI with a background in Platform/SRE/DevOps

London, England, United Kingdom

About

I'm currently a Software Engineer Specialising in SRE/Devops, making SaaS products that can be updated, tested, and deployed in a "GitOps" style. I work with AKS, helm, Gitlab, Datadog. Automation with Go/Python. I was the lead (formerly platform lead) of a cross functional team creating industry leading tools allowing CI/CD for hybrid cloud networking infrastructure. Most of my developing is on top of cloud services, primarily AWS and Azure. The majority of this involves using Terraform, Ansible, React and various Python and JavaScript libraries. Much of this experience is in the serverless framework, giving me opportunities to personally design and implement architecture for federated authentication, SecOps, and CICD pipelines. Previously my dissertation used natural language processing, studying the characteristics of successful grant proposals. I chose this topic due to a strong interest in programming, computational statistics, and machine learning gained studying Neuroscience and Biochemistry at university. I also developed my own Apps. My first major project was financial: a bot that found and executed arbitrage opportunities between sportsbooks (betting arbitrage). Then I went on to develop an app that managed orders and deliveries for a restaurant and finally this progressed to a serverless ETL pipeline for a fictional business with distributed data and compute resources.

Experience

  • Software Engineer (SRE\DevOPS) at PTC
    Aug 2022 - Dec 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • BT (Birmingham, England, United Kingdom)
    • Team Lead DevOps Engineer
      Jan 2022 - Aug 2022 · 8 mos

    • DevOps Engineer
      Sep 2021 - Dec 2021 · 4 mos

    • Graduate Software Engineer
      Jul 2021 - Nov 2021 · 5 mos

      I am very excited to be starting a software engineering graduate scheme with BT!

  • Data Engineering Student at Generation
    Jun 2021 - Jul 2021 · 2 mos

    Data Engineering Course with Generation and Infinity Works

  • Contract Data Administrator at Gather Capture
    Jan 2021 - Feb 2021 · 2 mos

    I successfully got a role as a Data Administrator for the Client Services team at Gather Capture

  • Contract Data Analyst at Family Law Partners
    May 2020 - Jul 2020 · 3 mos

    I produced a report for family law partners, using R to look for patterns in their questionnaire data.