Matthew Shott
Alloa,Clackmannanshire
Summary
Accomplished software developer with expertise in full-stack development, specialising in C#, .NET, Angular, Typescript, SQL, and Python. Worked with clients and assisted project managers to accomplish complex implementations. Created training material and led team to improve implementation workflows. Leveraged knowledge working with clients to create tooling to steam line client environment implementation and maintenance. Utilised Docker and AWS for scalable deployments while ensuring seamless software integration.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Principal software engineer
QAD Europe Ltd
Birmingham, West Midlands
07.2018 - 11.2025
- Took knowledge learned working with customers while in services and collaborated with product management to translate user requirements into technical specifications.
- Created new tooling to make deployments simpler and faster, reducing deployment forecasts by over 100%. Tools included source controls between environments and robust data staging and integration tools through dynamically generated spreadsheets and rest API integrations
- Full stack development on core application. Made continuous updates to features and underlying technologies. Reducing technical debt, improving maintainability and performance
- Refactored API and UI projects to be converted to containers and implement SaaS deployment pipeline
- Implemented Cursor (Agentic AI) into workflow to assist with finding code defects, security vulnerabilities, and suggest revisions to enforce best coding practices
- Used technologies include C#, .NET, MS SQL, Angular, Typescript, Python, Git, and AWS
Professional Services Engineer
QAD Europe Ltd
Birmingham, West Midlands
09.2016 - 07.2018
- Continued work from previous position
- Led newly formed services team to handle services work and deployments in Europe
- Further developed training material and hosted 4 training seminars
- Improved workflows to ensure successful deployments that stay in scope and on schedule
Professional Services Engineer
QAD
Miami, Florida USA
02.2015 - 08.2016
- Worked with customers remote and on-site to direct and course correct complex deployments
- Got over 6 major implementations back on schedule
- Created technical project management workflow to ensure configuration changes were properly tested and promoted
- Gathered requirements from customers and guided deployments following best practices to avoid technical pitfalls and overly complex workflows for daily users
- Setup SOAP and REST integration points for real-time data migration between products
- Used MS SQL for data migrations, stored procedures to achieve complex workflows, troubleshoot data integrity issues, and reporting for Telerik reports
- Created training course for services members and customers to learn how to become power users and configure efficient solutions
Junior software engineer
QAD
Miami, Florida USA
11.2010 - 02.2015
- Collaborated with product owner to define requirements project scope
- Full stack development using C#, .NET Framework, MS SQL Server, Oracle, Hibernate
- Brought unfinished product to release within 1 year of employment
- Redesigned business object layer to be more performant by refactoring code relying on reflection into dynamically written classes based on system configuration
- Migrated UI to AngularJS/Typescript
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Computer Science
Hope College
Holland, Michigan, USA 08.2006 - 07.2010
Skills
- Full-stack development
- Web application development
- Mentoring and coaching experience
- Data structures and algorithms
- Software development life cycle
- Object-Oriented programming
- Database management
- Client liaison
- Agile development
Accomplishments
QAD Champion 2015 - Pioneered Profession Services Engineer role and course corrected complex client implementations
Affiliations
- Board Games
- Historical European Martial Arts
- Mountain Biking
Timeline
Principal software engineer
QAD Europe Ltd
07.2018 - 11.2025
Professional Services Engineer
QAD Europe Ltd
09.2016 - 07.2018
Professional Services Engineer
QAD
02.2015 - 08.2016
Junior software engineer
QAD
11.2010 - 02.2015
Bachelor of Arts - Computer Science
Hope College
08.2006 - 07.2010