One of the main themes of Matthew White’s career has been integration of software technologies, to make better products, more reliable software solutions, and developer’s life easier and more productive. Currently he is one of the lead maintainers on Hyperledger Fabric, notably the chaincode and Smart Contract APIs, as well as the Fabric Samples.

Having worked with IBM Middleware solutions for many years, and prior to blockchain was specifically looking at how messaging and application server technology could be better integrated. Part of this is a social/developer communication challenge – different developers using different words to argue about the same thing.

Matthew gained a Master of Software Engineering from the University of Aberystwyth. Often to be found out taking landscape photographs, or hacking embedded microprocessors. All of them more powerful that his first Sinclair ZX81