Full-stack software engineer with 15+ years of development experience, self-taught since age 11. Currently at Lloyds Banking Group building customer-facing applications and AI systems across both Azure and GCP ecosystems.
Lloyds Banking Group — Software Engineer (Feb 2026 — Present): RAG pipelines and agentic AI workflows. Customer-facing PWA serving 250,000+ users. Biometric authentication. 6 Game Changers Awards including Pioneer Award for AI.
Lloyds Banking Group via FDM Group — Software Engineer (Apr 2024 — Feb 2026): IBM zOS mainframes, full-stack client engineering, built group's first PWA.
Freelance Full-Stack Developer (2018 — 2024): React, Next.js, Go, TypeScript, Node.js, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis.
UtopiaJS — Compiler-first UI framework, 16 npm packages. Fleet — Docker production management CLI + MCP server. Ink Component Library — 30 packages for terminal UIs. srag — Rust RAG system with tree-sitter. MCP Server Ecosystem — 8+ Model Context Protocol servers. LegacyPodClaw — 19,700 LOC Objective-C AI assistant for iOS 6. mattata — Telegram bot, 5M users. telegram-bot-lua — Featured on Telegram's official docs.
TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Rust, Go, Lua, Objective-C, C, C++, C#, Java, Kotlin, COBOL, React, Next.js, Node.js, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GCP, Azure, AWS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, RAG, MCP, Agentic AI, Vertex AI.
Email: matt@matthesketh.pro | GitHub: github.com/wrxck | LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/matthew-hesketh-ab8427204 | Portfolio: matthesketh.pro