Matt Skelton
Engineering Manager | Hands-on Technical Leader
Kitchener, Ontario
waterloomatt@gmail.com · 226-978-6339
linkedin.com/in/matt-skelton
01 / Profile
Engineering Manager with 10+ years of full-stack software engineering experience and a hands-on approach to technical leadership. I remain actively involved in technical architecture, design and implementation while coaching engineers, building team ownership and guiding delivery. I believe in building understandable systems, empowering engineers and making quality part of everyday development.
Professional Highlights
| 10+ years of experience | Technical leadership |
|---|---|
| Building full-stack software | Architecture, design, implementation and technical direction |
| People leadership | AI-assisted development |
| Coaching, career development and building team ownership | Planning, implementation and code review |
02 / Experience
Felix Health · Healthcare
Engineering Manager | November 2024 – Present
Lead five engineers across patient-facing web and mobile products, balancing people development, technical direction, and hands-on engineering.
- Manage five direct reports, including performance reviews, career development, and promotion planning; supported two engineers through promotions.
- Own technical design and architecture for features I lead, making solution and trade-off decisions while coaching engineers to lead their own features.
- Lead sprint planning, estimation, prioritization, and delivery with Product and Design; remain hands-on for approximately 30–50% of my time.
- Oversee engineering delivery of a rewards platform adopted by approximately 115,000 patients, with $567K in rewards redeemed.
- Organized a bi-weekly technical forum and introduced a rotating ATC role as the single point of contact for support requests, supported by a custom Slack integration.
- Defined backend test-naming standards across engineering teams, secured cross-team agreement, and built tooling to enforce consistency.
Felix Health · Healthcare
Senior Software Engineer | November 2023 – November 2024
- Improved patient onboarding, reducing application-to-prescription processing time from hours to minutes.
- Designed and implemented Meilisearch-powered Shop search and third-party fulfillment integrations.
- Integrated iOS HealthKit and Android Health Connect through native Capacitor plugins.
KidPass
Senior Full-Stack Engineer | November 2021 – July 2023
- Developed PHP APIs supporting React and mobile applications.
- Improved API response times by 20% and reduced bugs by 30% through performance and code-quality improvements.
- Achieved 90% test coverage across critical application areas.
Ontario Universities’ Application Centre
Senior Programmer | January 2013 – January 2021
- Maintained a multilingual application ecosystem spanning 21 sub-applications.
- Developed financial integrations supporting over $2M in daily payment processing.
- Integrated payment systems with Oracle PeopleSoft, automating financial reporting and accounting workflows.
Engineering Philosophy
Build understandable systems. Give engineers meaningful ownership. Make quality part of delivery.
03 / Education
Conestoga College
Computer Programming and Systems Design · 2005–2008
Conestoga College
Business Administration – Marketing · 2001–2004