Matthew McLeod

Founded and operate a consultancy delivering bespoke software architecture, product development, and technical strategy for clients across sectors including healthcare, security, and communications

• NHLS: Designed and implemented a Lab Quality Management System for South Africa’s leading pathology network, reducing error rates and enabling nationwide compliance audits

• USAID / PEPFAR: Developed device policy enforcement and telemetry for embedded laptops used in HIV/AIDS clinics across Africa — improving field performance, reducing device loss, and supporting regulatory reporting

• Popcorn Training: Built a custom video-centric LMS to deliver and track security awareness programs, supporting enterprise compliance training across global organizations

• ez-chat: Provided architecture and development support for a B2B messaging startup, including identity, real-time messaging, and multi-tenant support

Led a global engineering team to modernize the company’s technology stack post-acquisition, servicing 1M industrial installations. Focused on IoT, cloud-native services, and enterprise-grade IAM systems.

• Migrated legacy M&A systems into a unified Kubernetes-based microservices platform, which reduced infrastructure and maintenance costs by 60%

• Defined and enforced architectural standards across teams in 4+ countries, improving release velocity and reducing incident count

• Spearheaded development of a secure, multi-tenant IAM framework with MFA, FIDO2, OAuth2, OIDC, and SSO — enabling enterprise sales and compliance

• Implemented end-to-end CI/CD pipelines and IaC/gitops practices, improving deployment lead time from days to under 1 hour

• Facilitated cross-functional team training and legacy system onboarding to new platform standards

Led the design and implementation of a centralised intermediary master-data platform (GIS), enabling clean data exchange and interoperability across dozens of legacy and modern enterprise systems

• Designed and led development of GIS, the enterprise's canonical master-data platform for intermediary information

• Implemented the first complete CI/CD in the organisation

• Architected a master data management (MDM) solution for intermediary data used across financial, compliance, and sales systems

• Standardized and integrated canonical business data across 20+ heterogeneous systems, improving data integrity and enabling regulatory reporting, and reducing fraud

• Directed technical teams in the development of RESTful APIs and ETL pipelines to consolidate and expose canonical data to internal and third-party platforms

• Collaborated with business analysts and senior stakeholders to align data strategy with long-term enterprise architecture plans

Led business analysis and system architecture for the University of the Western Cape’s Marks Administration System rewrite, ensuring robust design, clear requirements, and smooth handover.

• Conducted end-to-end requirements gathering and gap analysis with academic and administrative stakeholders, translating into clear functional and non-functional specifications

• Designed a modular, maintainable architecture for the Marks Administration System, aligning with university security and scalability needs

• Defined data models and integration points with existing student information systems

• Developed additional designs for extranet capable versions of their teacher portal

• Collaborated with development teams on technology choices

• Produced technical documentation and provided guidance for testing, deployment, and knowledge transfer phases

Owned the end-to-end technical delivery for Vodacom's bespoke systems and other client projects, focusing on analysis, architecture, and early-stage development

• Performed initial technical and business analysis for Vodacom projects, defining scope, constraints, and solution approaches

• Architected core modules for wireless application service provider platforms, emphasizing scalability and security for vendors

• Documented requirements, designed system components, and collaborated with client development teams to implement proof-of-concepts

• Engaged in early performance testing and troubleshooting, ensuring the proposed design could handle expected user loads

• Facilitated knowledge transfer to client teams, providing guidelines for maintenance and incremental enhancements

Through ongoing projects, research, and learning, I'm working on the following areas:

• NixOS - For desktop, server, build server use - I'm currently running NixOS on all my machines

• Rust - I'm studying Rust at present, and am implementing some personal projects in it

• Discourse - I've taken a deep dive into the community software, and created some smaller plugins for our platform

• Bitcoin and Lightning Network payment systems

• ERPNext - Working to implement a complete CRM PaaS with ERPNext as a backend

• Astro - I've been reaching for Astro to build sites more and more often

• MedusaJS - A promising JS storefront

• Podman - replaced Docker for container management throughout my tooling

• Wayland - I'm experimenting with Hyprland, but daily-drive KDE Plasma on Wayland