Matthew Cooke

Matthew Cooke is a seasoned software professional with a strong background in building software within collaborative cross-functional product development teams.

His expertise lies in utilizing approaches like extreme programming (XP) practices to encourage incremental improvement of processes and technology by working iteratively and gathering feedback from end users and stakeholders.

Matthew is passionate about investigating how team structures and technical practices can facilitate quicker business feedback, delivering more value, and reducing technical debt through safe and continuous delivery of working software to end users.

His interests span various technologies and practices such as serverless functions, modern cloud-based technologies, XP technical practices like TDD and pair-programming, online analytics (OLAP)/reporting, event-driven systems, continuous integration/trunk-based development, testing in production, evolutionary design, and the lean startup approach to product discovery.

Matthew Cooke holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Kent and has held key positions including Co-Founder/CTO at Unruly, Software Developer at Krescendo Ltd, Systems Architect at Connextra, and Software Developer at Connextra Ltd.