Matt Hamilton - Python, AI/ML, Blockchain, XRP Ledger Developer Advocate

[ My CV / Resume | What I'm currently doing ]

Hi! I'm Matt, a developer and developer advocate interested in the XRP Ledger, blockchains and cryptocurrencies in general, AI / machine learning, and Python.

As a developer, I enjoy building things, especially combining multiple different things, to produce something new.

As a developer advocate, I enjoy helping other developers to learn, understand and build. Let's learn something new together! I am also the "voice of the developer" at the table — bringing your feedback to the product team.

I'm currently living in Barbados and taking some time out of work to focus on my family.

Previously, I was:

• the Director of Developer Relations / Principal Developer Advocate at Ripple
• a ML/AI Developer Advocate at IBM Cloud
• The co-creator of Choirless - a tool to allow remote musicians to play together, 2nd place in IBM's Call for Code competition
• the lead of the mobile development team at enquos
• Technical Director of Netsight, a web development agency in the UK
• ...and board member of the Plone Foundation.

Some stuff that I've done

This is just a sample selection of projects I've done, or been substantially involved with over the past few years to give you an idea of the sort of stuff I like doing:

• A blog post and recording of a talk I gave to the IBM UKI Technical Consulting Group on Twitch Streaming
• A talk I gave at the National University of Singapore (NUS) FinTech Lab: Masterclass in Payments and Blockchain
• A series of ten videos "Intro to the XRP Ledger" that I wrote the initial scripts for
• The XRP Ledger Grants programme that I helped setup and have been a judge for
• A talk / live coding session I gave on the XRP Ledger at Kansas University Blockchain Institute
• A video on Choirless: Connecting musicians with AI and IBM Cloud
• A Twitch live-coding session on: Joyful Tweets: Using IBM Tone Analysis API
• A blog post I wrote: Issuing Assets on the XRP Ledger for Ethereum Developers

Links

Some other places you can find me and my content:

• Twitter
• LinkedIn profile
• Polywork timeline
• My Github page
• Some tech blog posts on Dev.to
• Some videos I've recorded
• Slides of some of my talks
• My (a bit outdated) blog

If you want a chat about any of this, or think I can help your team, then get in touch. My email address is my first name at this domain name.