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I am Matt Ostrom-Hall, a Lead Full Stack Developer with extensive experience in PHP, Laravel and Vue. I specialize in building scalable web applications and leading development teams to deliver high-quality solutions. I have a strong foundation across front-end and back-end development and recently expanded into AI engineering to bring intelligent capabilities to products. Currently I lead a development team, focusing on architectural decisions, code quality, and mentoring while staying hands-on in feature work. My experience includes legacy modernization, API development, authentication systems, and integrating AI-powered solutions. In my freelance work and open-source projects I explore emerging technologies and continue to refine best practices to stay at the forefront of web development trends.…I am Matt Ostrom-Hall, a Lead Full Stack Developer with extensive experience in PHP, Laravel and Vue. I specialize in building scalable web applications and leading development teams to deliver high-quality solutions. I have a strong foundation across front-end and back-end development and recently expanded into AI engineering to bring intelligent capabilities to products. Currently I lead a development team, focusing on architectural decisions, code quality, and mentoring while staying hands-on in feature work. My experience includes legacy modernization, API development, authentication systems, and integrating AI-powered solutions. In my freelance work and open-source projects I explore emerging technologies and continue to refine best practices to stay at the forefront of web development trends.

Matt Ostrom-Hall

Full Stack Developer, Web Developer, Back-End Developer, +3

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I am Matt Ostrom-Hall, a Lead Full Stack Developer with extensive experience in PHP, Laravel and Vue. I specialize in building scalable web applications and leading development teams to deliver high-quality solutions. I have a strong foundation across front-end and back-end development and recently expanded into AI engineering to bring intelligent capabilities to products. Currently I lead a development team, focusing on architectural decisions, code quality, and mentoring while staying hands-on in feature work. My experience includes legacy modernization, API development, authentication systems, and integrating AI-powered solutions. In my freelance work and open-source projects I explore emerging technologies and continue to refine best practices to stay at the forefront of web development trends.…I am Matt Ostrom-Hall, a Lead Full Stack Developer with extensive experience in PHP, Laravel and Vue. I specialize in building scalable web applications and leading development teams to deliver high-quality solutions. I have a strong foundation across front-end and back-end development and recently expanded into AI engineering to bring intelligent capabilities to products. Currently I lead a development team, focusing on architectural decisions, code quality, and mentoring while staying hands-on in feature work. My experience includes legacy modernization, API development, authentication systems, and integrating AI-powered solutions. In my freelance work and open-source projects I explore emerging technologies and continue to refine best practices to stay at the forefront of web development trends.

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I am Matt Ostrom-Hall, a Lead Full Stack Developer with extensive experience in PHP, Laravel and Vue. I specialize in building scalable web applications and leading development teams to deliver high-quality solutions. I have a strong foundation across front-end and back-end development and recently expanded into AI engineering to bring intelligent capabilities to products.

Currently I lead a development team, focusing on architectural decisions, code quality, and mentoring while staying hands-on in feature work. My experience includes legacy modernization, API development, authentication systems, and integrating AI-powered solutions. In my freelance work and open-source projects I explore emerging technologies and continue to refine best practices to stay at the forefront of web development trends.

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Work Experience

Full Stack PHP Developer at Freelance

May 1, 2017 - October 28, 2025

Developing Laravel apps and APIs, Laravel Livewire apps, Vue SPAs, and Custom WordPress sites for clients.

Junior Web Developer at Something Big

November 1, 2018 - November 1, 2018

Joined Something Big as a junior web developer, contributing to web development projects and learning best practices.

Mid-weight Web Developer at Something Big

September 1, 2020 - September 1, 2020

Contributed as a mid-weight web developer, delivering web applications and maintaining code quality.

Full-Stack Web Developer at Spotler CRM

March 1, 2023 - March 1, 2023

Integrated and developed features within Spotler CRM, including multi-tenant authentication and API work.

Senior Software Engineer at British Horseracing Authority

September 1, 2023 - September 1, 2023

Full‑stack web development for the organization, delivering modern PHP/Laravel back‑end work and front‑end solutions.

Lead Developer at Spotler CRM

September 1, 2023 - October 28, 2025

Leading a team of developers, providing technical guidance and code reviews, architecting new features and system improvements; mentoring through pair programming; integrating SSO and refactoring a legacy app; Automation Workflow UI; Xero integration; AWS deployment tooling.

AI Engineer at Fabric Fintech

June 1, 2024 - November 1, 2025

Built a knowledge ingestion pipeline in Python to turn documents into usable chunks of knowledge for LLMs, and a PHP service to interface with the pipeline. Implemented a multi-tenant authentication system for the Laravel app. Created a feature flag package with hooks for enabling/disabling features for fine-grained control. Built a service to retrieve fund information from the Morningstar platform by name or ISIN codes.

AI Engineer

November 30, 2025 - November 30, 2025

Built a knowledge ingestion pipeline in Python to turn documents into usable chunks of knowledge for LLMs and developed a PHP service to communicate with the pipeline. Implemented a multi-tenant authentication system for a Laravel application. Created a feature flag package exposing hooks for enabling/disabling features for fine-grained control. Built a service to retrieve fund information from the Morningstar platform based on fund names or ISIN codes.

Senior Software Engineer at British Horseracing Authority

September 30, 2023 - September 30, 2023

Full-stack web development contributing to modernization efforts and feature delivery as part of a remote, distributed team.

Full-time Web Developer at Spotler CRM

March 31, 2023 - March 31, 2023

Added a Laravel wrapper around a legacy CakePHP project to enable a progressive rewrite, implemented multi-tenant authentication, Automation Workflow UI, and integration between the CRM and Xero Accounting. Created internal tooling to deploy test branches to AWS via Ploi.

Mid-weight Web Developer at Something Big

September 30, 2020 - September 30, 2020

Developed web applications and features as part of a fast-paced development team, contributing to frontend and backend tasks.

Junior Web Developer at Woking

November 30, 2018 - November 30, 2018

Assisted in the development of web projects, gaining experience across frontend and backend tasks.

Full Stack Web Developer at Spotler CRM

March 1, 2023 - March 1, 2023

Added a Laravel wrapper around a legacy CakePHP project to enable a progressive rewrite, implemented multi-tenant authentication, built Automation Workflow UI, integrated CRM with Xero Accounting, and created an internal tool to deploy test branches to AWS through Ploi.