Matthew Collins.
Senior Software Engineer & FinTech Product Architect, Manchester UK. Fifteen-plus years building things — now end-to-end across market-data systems, AI-native workflows and blockchain infrastructure.
From building structures
to building systems.
Eighteen years in architecture and safety-critical design technology now inform the software: systems thinking, compliance discipline and fabrication-grade documentation.
Systems Engineer · AI Designer
AI-driven bridge-design tooling for safety-critical infrastructure. Built TypeScript + Three.js parametric modelling with Python optimisation services generating bridge options from span, skew and clearance — cutting early optioneering cycles by ~30% — with DMRB/Eurocode-style compliance validators and BIM/CAD outputs.
Co-Founder & Director · Senior Software Engineer
Direct a UK software company across fintech, AI, blockchain and commercial digital products — architecting full-stack systems and delivering chart-led dashboards, design systems and technical documentation.
Founder & CEO
Founded the Zero ecosystem: Solidity smart-contract repositories across EVM networks, whitepapers on consensus, tokenomics and decentralised banking, and a 21-product fintech architecture with UK compliance themes throughout.
Managing Director · Senior Software Engineer
Responsive web applications, blockchain interfaces, smart-contract demos and product prototypes — with Stripe, PayPal, Clerk, Auth0 and Plaid-style integration patterns across fintech builds.
Senior Architectural Technologist & Design Lead
Commercial, residential, cinema and leisure projects — Odeon, IMAX, Cineworld, Sports Direct — through working drawings, Building Regulation submissions, fabrication coordination and site support. The origin of the systems thinking behind everything above.
Credentials & publications.
Financial Technology
Manchester Metropolitan University, 2024–2025. Blockchain, DeFi, financial engineering, regulation and digital innovation. Progressing toward PhD-level research in Blockchain & AI.
KX · kdb+ · PyKX · Quant
KDB-X Python L2, q Developer L3, KDB-X Dashboards, kdb+ Architecture, KDB.AI Vector Database, Intro to Quant Trading and more — KX Academy & Learning Hub, 2024–2026.
Whitepapers & books
ZC-1 Consensus Whitepaper v1.0; Zero-Bank; Zero-Blockchain XYZ; Zero-Coin & Zero-Tokens ICOs — plus four published books on wealth and entrepreneurship as MJ Collins.
Let's talk.
Open to senior engineering, KDB/q, AI systems and blockchain roles — remote or hybrid — and product collaborations.