About Me

Hi! I’m Matt Collins.

I’m an entrepreneurial CTO and product leader who loves building successful online products and services.

My Background

I’ve co-founded and helped grow a number of online businesses:

  • CTO and Head of Product at Apply4 Technology, providing SaaS tools to some of the largest cities and local governments in the UK, US and New Zealand.
  • First CTO at LoveCrafts, a VC-backed e-commerce retailer, helping grow the business from almost nothing to £multi-million per year.
  • Co-founded and sold the UK’s first food-focused daily deals website.
  • Launched and sold a cosmetics subscription box business.

Prior to this, I developed software for Cisco‘s multi-billion dollar lines of networking gear.

Interests & Experience

  • B2B SaaS
  • Marketplaces
  • Product strategy
  • Software engineering
  • Business model innovation
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Django
  • DevOps

Education