01 / GoRun an agent.
Waffle
A personal AI agent that runs on your own hardware.
A place to bring models, skills, and tools together around the way I work. The terminal in the film represents the agent you use.
Explore WaffleMatt Riley / software engineer / Leeds
Made to
be used.
I build backend systems and developer tools, from first release through the work of keeping them running.
Explore the workObjects of the work / 001A Blender study
Last played:
De La Soul — Ego Trippin' (Part Two)
Selected work
Useful by
design.
Tools I use, things I publish, and the work I do with teams.
01 / Go
02 / ZigKeep the record.
AgenGit
A local record of what coding agents do between Git commits.
Commits tell one part of the story. AgenGit captures the activity between them. The tape recorder represents that running record.
Explore AgenGit
03 / JavaScript / SQLiteRemember context.
Lore
Local memory for Copilot CLI and Pi, stored in SQLite.
Context that can carry over to the next session. The card archive represents memory you keep locally.
Explore Lore
The other Waffle.
The cat came first. The agent borrowed the name.
02 / Open sourceSmall tools / source availableskill-eval / Neovim / Flagz
Things I publish.
Small tools.
Real uses.
A way to evaluate agent skills, a quieter Neovim interface, and feature flags you can host yourself. Built around problems I keep running into.
Run the same task with and without a skill, grade the outputs, and measure the difference.
A small measure of UI for Neovim — dashboards, notifications, statuscolumn, indent guides, and reference words.
A self-hosted feature-flag service with REST, gRPC, SSE, PostgreSQL, and Go and TypeScript clients.
skill-eval / Gopint.nvim / LuaFlagz / Go
03 / RecordProfessional work / since 2007Companies / dates / technologies
A record of the work.
Different jobs.
Same questions.
I started in analysis and testing, then moved through backend, platform, and product engineering. Same questions each time: does it ship, does it stay up, and is the next change cheaper than the last?
Read the plain-text work recordjan 2026 — nowLloyds WealthSenior Software Engineer
I work on the existing TypeScript suite — React, Remix, and Serverless on AWS SAM. Since joining I've moved several repos from CircleCI to GitHub Actions, put infrastructure in Terraform, and been chipping away at dependency and platform updates so the next change is cheaper.
- TypeScript
- React
- Remix
- Terraform
- GitHub Actions
- AWS SAM
- AWS
feb 2023 — sep 2023HavenSenior Software Engineer
Web Platform and Activities. I built API layers over the existing databases and simplified the backend so the product teams weren't fighting the architecture to ship.
- AWS
- Express
- Fastify
- Kubernetes
- NestJS
- NodeJS
- PostgreSQL
- Terraform
- TypeScript
nov 2021 — dec 2022Add To EventSoftware Engineer
I helped move the product off Drupal onto TypeScript microservices on GKE, using NestJS. Same product, new backend.
- Cloud Functions
- Docker
- GCP
- Gitlab
- Kubernetes
- NestJS
- NodeJS
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- Terraform
- TypeScript
jul 2019 — jul 2021MetriskSoftware Engineer
I built the service behind Scan2Recycle: users photograph a product, Cloud Vision identifies it, and they get a reward — store loyalty points, for example — for putting it in an in-store recycle bin.
That service ran on GCP (Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions, Cloud Vision). The main Metrisk promotions platform was AWS — AppSync, Lambda, Serverless.
- AWS
- Cloud Functions
- DynamoDB
- GCP
- Github Actions
- GraphQL
- Kinesis
- Lambda
- NodeJS
- PubSub
- Serverless
- TypeScript
apr 2015 — jul 2019SkySoftware Engineer
I joined as an automation tester and moved onto the GraphQL core team. That service fed Sky.com and the MySky app. I also looked after the Varnish cache in front of the backends GraphQL consumed.
- Apollo Server
- Docker
- Express
- Grafana
- GraphQL
- Kafka
- MongoDB
- NodeJS
- Redis
- Ruby
- Sinatra
apr 2014 — apr 2015William HillTest Engineer
Testing gaming content on William Hill — mainly Vegas, plus Games and Live Casino. Fairness testing on an in-house Node.js app, supplier REST APIs, and some Ruby automation with the Innovation team.
- Coffeescript
- MongoDB
- NodeJS
- Ruby
jan 2012 — apr 2014Hewlett PackardSystem Integration Test Engineer
- Citrix
- Ruby
nov 2007 — dec 2011DWPBusiness Analyst & Test Engineer
- Excel
- Microsoft Access
- Oracle e-business suite
- Visual Basic
A little context
The person
behind it.
I've spent nearly twenty years in software, mostly on backend APIs and the systems around them — GraphQL at Sky, product and platform work after that, currently at Lloyds Wealth. I also make tools for my own setup: a personal agent, a way to record what coding agents do between commits, and a pile of Neovim and Homebrew bits.
I'm a Neovim user, which I have to mention at any possible opportunity as per the terms and conditions of using (Neo)Vim, and comfortable using any environment with a terminal — preferably macOS or (almost) any flavour of Linux.
Outside of writing code and tinkering with my dotfiles I enjoy:
- (mostly 80s/90s) hip-hop
- Supporting Everton FC (although 'enjoy' may be an exaggeration here)
- Gaming — Dead by Daylight, Spider-Man, GTA being my main go-tos
- Drinking craft beers — mainly stouts and DIPAs from The Hoptimist
From the paid work
- NodeJS
- TypeScript
- AWS
- Ruby
- Terraform
- Cloud Functions
- Docker
- Express
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