Matthew Cobbing
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorMatthew Cobbing is a Technical Lead and software engineer based in London, bringing 9 years of experience building scalable backend systems. Currently at Perkbox, he blends hands-on development with technical leadership to drive robust architecture and engineering best practices. An active open-source contributor, he has focused on the Gleam language compiler and formatter, addressing formatting edge cases, enhancing comment processing, and adding productivity features like inserting todo in empty anonymous functions. His career spans roles at Perkbox, Nando’s UK & IRE, and Anritsu, giving him a diverse background across startups and established teams. He holds an MEng in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Loughborough University, grounding his software craft in a solid engineering discipline.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
formatting10
compiler10
programming-language10
compiler-compiler10
gleam10
text-formatting10
programming-languages10
compilers10
erlang8
strongly-typed7
static-typing7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
gleam-lang/gleam
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
⭐️ A friendly language for building type-safe, scalable systems!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 1 comment in 10 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on improving the Gleam language compiler and formatter. Their contributions involved fixing bugs related to the formatting of code, specifically handling cases with clauses, patterns, and external function arguments. They also added a feature to insert `todo` statements in empty anonymous functions, and improved the handling of comments within the formatting process. Several commits addressed specific issues, such as breaking external function arguments instead of the return annotation in the formatter.
gleamscalableerlangstatically-typedtype-safe
perkbox/grpc-build
Apr 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:5 releases, 10 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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