- Location:
- Helsinki
- E-mail:
- matthew@matthewhiggins.me
- Residence:
- Right of permanent residence in Finland
- Last updated:
- 2020-09-01
Personal Information
Education
09.2019-05.2022
Aalto University
Bachelor's Degree in Science (Technology).
- Major:
- Data Science
- Current progress:
- 76/180 ECTS
Work Experience
06.2020-08.2020
Aalto University
Research Assistant (Web Accessibility Specialist).
- Auditing and improving the accessibility of the open source A+ learning management system.
- Working independently on auditing while coaching the software developers in the team on the accessibility of their work.
- Three-month summer internship after one year of full-time studies.
10.2018-08.2019
Invesdor
Software Developer.
- Focused on service design issues around usability, accessibility and clarity for Invesdor's online crowd investing platform.
- Worked broadly on maintaining a monolithic Ruby on Rails web application.
- Left to begin studying full-time.
02.2017-10.2018
Freska
Software Developer.
- Re-wrote the algorithm responsible for optimising the way cleaners are allocated to tasks - this was at the core of how the company functions.
- For much of my time, I was the only person working on backend software.
- As an early employee at a startup, I was also extensively involved in recruitment, and keeping a 'big-picture' view of the whole company to inform technical decision-making.
06.2015-02.2017
Leadfeeder
Software Developer.
- Very early employee initially focused on internal tools, then later specialising in data quality.
- Regularly worked with datasets of hundreds of millions of items.
- Involved in recruitment and responsible for elements of employee onboarding.
Skills
Languages
- English - Native
- Finnish - Good (CEFR B1)
- Swedish - Basic (CEFR A2)