Hi, I’m Matthew Moore, a Senior PHP Engineer with a First Class BSc in Mathematics and 6+ years of experience delivering high-performance FinTech solutions. I specialize in building scalable back-end systems and migrating complex legacy code to modern stacks, with a focus on reliability and debt reduction. Outside of coding, I enjoy collaborating with product and design teams to craft robust APIs and data pipelines that power growth. I’m passionate about architectural patterns like Strangler Fig, AWS-based deployments, and helping teams ship features quickly without compromising stability.

Matthew Moore

Hi, I’m Matthew Moore, a Senior PHP Engineer with a First Class BSc in Mathematics and 6+ years of experience delivering high-performance FinTech solutions. I specialize in building scalable back-end systems and migrating complex legacy code to modern stacks, with a focus on reliability and debt reduction. Outside of coding, I enjoy collaborating with product and design teams to craft robust APIs and data pipelines that power growth. I’m passionate about architectural patterns like Strangler Fig, AWS-based deployments, and helping teams ship features quickly without compromising stability.

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Hi, I’m Matthew Moore, a Senior PHP Engineer with a First Class BSc in Mathematics and 6+ years of experience delivering high-performance FinTech solutions. I specialize in building scalable back-end systems and migrating complex legacy code to modern stacks, with a focus on reliability and debt reduction.

Outside of coding, I enjoy collaborating with product and design teams to craft robust APIs and data pipelines that power growth. I’m passionate about architectural patterns like Strangler Fig, AWS-based deployments, and helping teams ship features quickly without compromising stability.

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Language

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Work Experience

Senior PHP Engineer at Payl8r / Dopple
July 1, 2023 - Present
Commercial-scale engineering of the core lending platform ('Dopple'), scaling to process over £10m in loans. Led architectural modernization of a legacy monolith into a greenfield Laravel platform using the Strangler Fig pattern, delivering zero-downtime transitions. Acted as sole technical lead for large-scale external partner integrations and built a scalable API backbone for high-volume data exchange.
Software Engineer (Full Stack) at ICRTouch
July 1, 2019 - July 1, 2023
Led system stability improvements; spearheaded a major refactor reducing PHP error logs from ~100,000 to near zero and built a Cash Management System from scratch (DB, API, Frontend). Contributed to business growth by delivering a Vue.js-based visual ticketing system that opened lucrative sales verticals (theaters and stadiums).

Education

BSc (Hons) Mathematics at Coventry University
January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2019

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Industry Experience

Financial Services, Software & Internet, Media & Entertainment, Professional Services