A developer in Monza, an hour ahead of you
I’m Matt. I grew up on the edge of London, I’ve lived in Monza for years, and a good part of my work is for clients in the UK: a building firm in the Home Counties, a cycling club in Halifax, a start-up making AI safe for primary teachers. I build what Lewis designs. The company is British, the invoices are in pounds, the phone number is a UK mobile, and I’m one hour ahead, so your morning email is usually answered before your coffee is. The first look at what you have is free.
The developer, directly
I’ve spent ten years building for the web: WordPress sites and plugins, integrations between systems that were never meant to talk, Laravel applications, and the security work that keeps all of it standing. Before that I was a technical writer and then Digital Director of the Swiss e-commerce association, so I’ve sat on the client’s side of the table with a budget to defend and a supplier to understand.
Lewis and I have designed and built together since 2019, from a hundred-year-old cycling club in Halifax to a produce shop in Chiasso. He draws it, I make it work, and you talk to whichever of us is doing the piece in front of you. No account manager, no handover, no juniors.
When a site has been left broken, slow or open by somebody else, I’m the one who reads the code and puts it right, and I don’t lecture you about how it got that way.
- WordPress sites, blocks and plugins, built to last
- Integrations with CRMs, payments, accounts and newsletters
- Security fixes and rescues, without the sermon
Where I am, and where I’m not
Honestly: I live abroad, and I’m back and forth between the UK, Italy and Switzerland. Here is what that means in practice.
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The UK
The company is registered near Reading, Lewis is in Halifax, and I work from co-working spaces in both when I’m over. A first meeting in person is worth the trip; after that, most clients prefer the call.
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Monza, near Milan
Home, and where the code gets written. One hour ahead of London, so a working day overlaps almost entirely with yours.
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Ticino, Switzerland
An hour up the road. I’ve had clients there for ten years, which is why the case studies have a Swiss accent.
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Paperwork
A UK limited company, VAT registered, invoicing in pounds. Your contract and your supplier are British, wherever the developer happens to be sitting.
Built for clients in the UK
A few of the UK jobs, with the people involved named on each.
Tell me what you need
Send a line and I’ll reply within one working day. Then you get, in writing, what I’d do and what it would cost. The first look is free, and if the honest answer is “you don’t need this”, I’ll say so.