mysociety/fixmystreet
Jul 2024 – Apr 2026
22 Months active
Languages Used
PerlHTMLJavaScriptSCSSTextDockerfileMarkdownPO
Technical Skills
Perlbackend developmentdatabase managementAPI integrationJavaScriptPerl programming
Matthew Somerville
PROFILE
Matthew Somerville
Matthew contributed deeply to the mysociety/fixmystreet repository, delivering robust features and reliability improvements across waste management, payments, mapping, and reporting workflows. He engineered end-to-end flows for subscriptions, payments, and bulky item bookings, refactoring legacy code for maintainability and integrating new data models to support regional requirements. Using Perl, JavaScript, and SQL, Matthew optimized backend processes, enhanced data integrity, and improved user experience through UI and API enhancements. His work included implementing geospatial data handling, payment gateway integration, and automated scheduling, consistently addressing edge cases and performance bottlenecks. The breadth and depth of his engineering ensured scalable, maintainable solutions.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
63%Features
Repository Contributions
736Total
Bugs
221
Commits
736
Features
379
Lines of code
142,573
Activity Months22
Your Network
13 peopleWork History
April 2026
9 Commits • 5 Features
Apr 1, 2026April 2026 accomplishments focused on delivering cobrand-ready features, improving data integrity, and stabilizing core workflows across fixmystreet. Key features and reliability updates were introduced for BathNES, temporary traffic signage, waste management subscriptions, calendar generation, license flow UX, and reporting policies.
9 Commits • 5 Features
Apr 1, 2026April 2026 accomplishments focused on delivering cobrand-ready features, improving data integrity, and stabilizing core workflows across fixmystreet. Key features and reliability updates were introduced for BathNES, temporary traffic signage, waste management subscriptions, calendar generation, license flow UX, and reporting policies.
April 2026
March 2026
25 Commits • 20 Features
Mar 1, 2026March 2026 summary for mysociety/fixmystreet focused on delivering data-quality features, pricing policy improvements, UX enhancements, and operational observability across multiple deployments. Notable work includes introducing a countryside asset type for Surrey, implementing Bromley’s domestic vs. trade minimum pricing, and refining the refuse flow and form usability to reduce friction and errors. Open311 updates preserve user state to avoid unnecessary overwrites, while Central Bedfordshire received a targeted update-behavior tweak to minimize duplicate processing. Across admin and TF/L policy surfaces, improvements to search, logging, and accessibility contributed to maintainability and faster troubleshooting. Minor documentation and UI alignment changes reduced noise and improved consistency across the platform.
March 2026
25 Commits • 20 Features
Mar 1, 2026March 2026 summary for mysociety/fixmystreet focused on delivering data-quality features, pricing policy improvements, UX enhancements, and operational observability across multiple deployments. Notable work includes introducing a countryside asset type for Surrey, implementing Bromley’s domestic vs. trade minimum pricing, and refining the refuse flow and form usability to reduce friction and errors. Open311 updates preserve user state to avoid unnecessary overwrites, while Central Bedfordshire received a targeted update-behavior tweak to minimize duplicate processing. Across admin and TF/L policy surfaces, improvements to search, logging, and accessibility contributed to maintainability and faster troubleshooting. Minor documentation and UI alignment changes reduced noise and improved consistency across the platform.
February 2026
40 Commits • 18 Features
Feb 1, 2026February 2026 delivered a mix of user-facing feature work and backend performance improvements across multiple sites, with a strong focus on TfL workflows, form handling for Merton, and UI reliability for Kingston/Echo. The team also advanced infrastructure and data-layer efficiency, including database indexing, PostGIS options, and a CI upgrade, contributing to faster, more reliable operations and improved business value for end users.
40 Commits • 18 Features
Feb 1, 2026February 2026 delivered a mix of user-facing feature work and backend performance improvements across multiple sites, with a strong focus on TfL workflows, form handling for Merton, and UI reliability for Kingston/Echo. The team also advanced infrastructure and data-layer efficiency, including database indexing, PostGIS options, and a CI upgrade, contributing to faster, more reliable operations and improved business value for end users.
February 2026
January 2026
29 Commits • 13 Features
Jan 1, 2026January 2026 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: A focused round of UI readability improvements, data robustness enhancements, and automation features delivered across the FixMyStreet product. The work streamlined user interactions, strengthened data integrity, and laid groundwork for faster automated workflows, while also delivering business-value improvements in admin visibility and reporting flow.
January 2026
29 Commits • 13 Features
Jan 1, 2026January 2026 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: A focused round of UI readability improvements, data robustness enhancements, and automation features delivered across the FixMyStreet product. The work streamlined user interactions, strengthened data integrity, and laid groundwork for faster automated workflows, while also delivering business-value improvements in admin visibility and reporting flow.
December 2025
34 Commits • 20 Features
Dec 1, 2025Month 2025-12 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet. Delivered a broad set of features and reliability fixes across the product, driving user experience, data integrity, and performance. Highlights include downloadable PDF calendar links, improved scheduling reliability, and backend/UX improvements that align with business goals of reducing support friction and enabling faster, data-driven decisions. The work also strengthened observability, search and filter capabilities, and translation/data integrity patterns to support scalable growth.
34 Commits • 20 Features
Dec 1, 2025Month 2025-12 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet. Delivered a broad set of features and reliability fixes across the product, driving user experience, data integrity, and performance. Highlights include downloadable PDF calendar links, improved scheduling reliability, and backend/UX improvements that align with business goals of reducing support friction and enabling faster, data-driven decisions. The work also strengthened observability, search and filter capabilities, and translation/data integrity patterns to support scalable growth.
December 2025
November 2025
23 Commits • 16 Features
Nov 1, 2025November 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet. The month focused on delivering core features across multiple modules, stabilizing admin UX, and expanding waste data visibility, while improving data integrity and maintainability through targeted refactors and UI enhancements.
November 2025
23 Commits • 16 Features
Nov 1, 2025November 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet. The month focused on delivering core features across multiple modules, stabilizing admin UX, and expanding waste data visibility, while improving data integrity and maintainability through targeted refactors and UI enhancements.
October 2025
52 Commits • 20 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet. Focused on reliability improvements, user experience enhancements, and data-driven performance optimizations across Bexley, Sutton, Merton, North Northants, Echo, and related deployments. Key changes include data access improvements for Bexley, UI and email refinements in Sutton, bulky items workflow enhancements and asset updates in Merton, scheduling frequency automation in Echo, and UI/data enhancements in North Northants. Also addressed several high-priority bugs to stabilize calendar processing, update sending, and security-related issues.
52 Commits • 20 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet. Focused on reliability improvements, user experience enhancements, and data-driven performance optimizations across Bexley, Sutton, Merton, North Northants, Echo, and related deployments. Key changes include data access improvements for Bexley, UI and email refinements in Sutton, bulky items workflow enhancements and asset updates in Merton, scheduling frequency automation in Echo, and UI/data enhancements in North Northants. Also addressed several high-priority bugs to stabilize calendar processing, update sending, and security-related issues.
October 2025
September 2025
54 Commits • 28 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025 delivered a mix of performance, usability, and reliability improvements across the FixMyStreet suite. Key features include lazy-loading for three footer images to accelerate page load and save bandwidth; improved business logic and UX with Merton Waste bin services ordering; Sutton sidebar enhancement via a small items link; and front-page UI adjustments to better adapt to viewports. Major code-quality and reliability work included refactoring payment processing for Waste, caching GetSiteWorksheets results in session to reduce redundant calls, and persisting fetched events for faster subsequent access. Additional cleanups included removing unused AboutYou fields (Garden) and minor UI bug fixes across several endpoints. These changes collectively enhance user experience for municipal customers, improve data accuracy, and reduce friction in common workflows such as waste collection requests and payments.
September 2025
54 Commits • 28 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025 delivered a mix of performance, usability, and reliability improvements across the FixMyStreet suite. Key features include lazy-loading for three footer images to accelerate page load and save bandwidth; improved business logic and UX with Merton Waste bin services ordering; Sutton sidebar enhancement via a small items link; and front-page UI adjustments to better adapt to viewports. Major code-quality and reliability work included refactoring payment processing for Waste, caching GetSiteWorksheets results in session to reduce redundant calls, and persisting fetched events for faster subsequent access. Additional cleanups included removing unused AboutYou fields (Garden) and minor UI bug fixes across several endpoints. These changes collectively enhance user experience for municipal customers, improve data accuracy, and reduce friction in common workflows such as waste collection requests and payments.
August 2025
60 Commits • 36 Features
Aug 1, 2025August 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered a set of high-impact features and stability fixes across bulky processing, data export, mapping, and payment workflows, driving improved data integrity, user experience, and operational efficiency. Key features include bulk processing improvements with mandatory phone capture and polished confirmations; CSV export now includes the original reference; aerial mapping layer added with performance-conscious zoom controls; and direct debit reconciliation options plus related UI/data updates. Major fixes addressed warning handling, PAYE narrative display, fly-tipping grouping, and renewal questionnaire handling to reduce errors and unintended changes. These efforts contributed to improved data quality, faster end-to-end operations, and groundwork for scalable growth.
60 Commits • 36 Features
Aug 1, 2025August 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered a set of high-impact features and stability fixes across bulky processing, data export, mapping, and payment workflows, driving improved data integrity, user experience, and operational efficiency. Key features include bulk processing improvements with mandatory phone capture and polished confirmations; CSV export now includes the original reference; aerial mapping layer added with performance-conscious zoom controls; and direct debit reconciliation options plus related UI/data updates. Major fixes addressed warning handling, PAYE narrative display, fly-tipping grouping, and renewal questionnaire handling to reduce errors and unintended changes. These efforts contributed to improved data quality, faster end-to-end operations, and groundwork for scalable growth.
August 2025
July 2025
24 Commits • 15 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet focusing on delivering business value through feature delivery, reliability fixes, and architectural refinements. The month saw cross-domain improvements across payments, maps, rights of way, bulky items workflows, and developer ergonomics, resulting in cleaner payment flows, more reliable mapping, richer ROW capabilities, and improved user data capture.
July 2025
24 Commits • 15 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet focusing on delivering business value through feature delivery, reliability fixes, and architectural refinements. The month saw cross-domain improvements across payments, maps, rights of way, bulky items workflows, and developer ergonomics, resulting in cleaner payment flows, more reliable mapping, richer ROW capabilities, and improved user data capture.
June 2025
44 Commits • 23 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 monthly performance summary for mysociety/fixmystreet. Delivered core value through payments integration, site-specific UX enhancements, security improvements, and geospatial accuracy upgrades across regional deployments. The work reduced processing friction, improved data integrity, and strengthened privacy, underpinning scalable growth and more reliable service delivery.
44 Commits • 23 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 monthly performance summary for mysociety/fixmystreet. Delivered core value through payments integration, site-specific UX enhancements, security improvements, and geospatial accuracy upgrades across regional deployments. The work reduced processing friction, improved data integrity, and strengthened privacy, underpinning scalable growth and more reliable service delivery.
June 2025
May 2025
61 Commits • 27 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 monthly performance highlights for mysociety/fixmystreet focused on delivering high-value features, stabilizing communications, and modernizing configuration/data management to boost business value and maintainability.
May 2025
61 Commits • 27 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 monthly performance highlights for mysociety/fixmystreet focused on delivering high-value features, stabilizing communications, and modernizing configuration/data management to boost business value and maintainability.
April 2025
42 Commits • 20 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet focusing on delivering targeted improvements across Fly-tipping reporting, update-check traceability, cross-borough workflow optimizations, reporting enhancements, and reliability/code-quality improvements. Highlights include features delivered, bugs fixed, business impact, and demonstrated tech skills.
42 Commits • 20 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet focusing on delivering targeted improvements across Fly-tipping reporting, update-check traceability, cross-borough workflow optimizations, reporting enhancements, and reliability/code-quality improvements. Highlights include features delivered, bugs fixed, business impact, and demonstrated tech skills.
April 2025
March 2025
67 Commits • 39 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025 performance summary for mysociety/fixmystreet. This period delivered substantial improvements across Bexley, Waste, and Garden workflows, focusing on subscription lifecycle, data quality, and admin governance. Notable outcomes include an auto-renew renewal workflow for expired Bexley subscriptions, enhanced config-driven access controls and logging for Bexley, and improved pending waste lookups with confirmed reports. Data integrity improvements ensured waste records always have a name, and user-facing garden admin experiences were clarified with staff-only cancellation access and improved intro text. Several reliability and quality fixes were completed (template warnings, removal of unused hooks, and edge-case corrections such as 0 zoom handling). These changes collectively reduce operational risk, accelerate end-to-end processing, and improve business value for field operations and council services.
March 2025
67 Commits • 39 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025 performance summary for mysociety/fixmystreet. This period delivered substantial improvements across Bexley, Waste, and Garden workflows, focusing on subscription lifecycle, data quality, and admin governance. Notable outcomes include an auto-renew renewal workflow for expired Bexley subscriptions, enhanced config-driven access controls and logging for Bexley, and improved pending waste lookups with confirmed reports. Data integrity improvements ensured waste records always have a name, and user-facing garden admin experiences were clarified with staff-only cancellation access and improved intro text. Several reliability and quality fixes were completed (template warnings, removal of unused hooks, and edge-case corrections such as 0 zoom handling). These changes collectively reduce operational risk, accelerate end-to-end processing, and improve business value for field operations and council services.
February 2025
29 Commits • 14 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered cross-brand features, reliability fixes, and data-layer improvements that enhance incident response, user experience, and data quality. The work strengthened brand alignment, reduced noise in alerts, and expanded GIS capabilities across multiple districts, while maintaining a strong focus on performance and maintainability.
29 Commits • 14 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered cross-brand features, reliability fixes, and data-layer improvements that enhance incident response, user experience, and data quality. The work strengthened brand alignment, reduced noise in alerts, and expanded GIS capabilities across multiple districts, while maintaining a strong focus on performance and maintainability.
February 2025
January 2025
46 Commits • 20 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet focused on delivering cross-location platform improvements, feature enhancements, and robust bug fixes to improve data quality, reliability, and operational efficiency across Waste, SLWP/Kingston/Sutton, and related modules.
January 2025
46 Commits • 20 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet focused on delivering cross-location platform improvements, feature enhancements, and robust bug fixes to improve data quality, reliability, and operational efficiency across Waste, SLWP/Kingston/Sutton, and related modules.
December 2024
43 Commits • 17 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet focusing on reliability, performance, and expanded data capabilities across reporting, mapping, and user workflows. Delivered key features, resolved root causes in data handling, and aligned with policy changes to support business goals.
43 Commits • 17 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 monthly summary for mysociety/fixmystreet focusing on reliability, performance, and expanded data capabilities across reporting, mapping, and user workflows. Delivered key features, resolved root causes in data handling, and aligned with policy changes to support business goals.
December 2024
November 2024
29 Commits • 15 Features
Nov 1, 2024Month 2024-11 — Delivered a concentrated set of features and fixes across fixmystreet, strengthening user experience, admin controls, and data integrity while improving deployment readiness. Key features include HTML-enabled Waste enquiry notices, Open311 data processing optimizations, and targeted UI improvements for geography and admin contexts. Major bugs fixed enhanced access restrictions and data consistency, reducing support friction and preventing regression. Overall impact: improved resident interactions, more robust data handling, and smoother deployments with systemd/Docker adjustments. Technologies/skills demonstrated: backend feature work, data handling and validation, admin UI improvements, deployment readiness, and cross-team collaboration.
November 2024
29 Commits • 15 Features
Nov 1, 2024Month 2024-11 — Delivered a concentrated set of features and fixes across fixmystreet, strengthening user experience, admin controls, and data integrity while improving deployment readiness. Key features include HTML-enabled Waste enquiry notices, Open311 data processing optimizations, and targeted UI improvements for geography and admin contexts. Major bugs fixed enhanced access restrictions and data consistency, reducing support friction and preventing regression. Overall impact: improved resident interactions, more robust data handling, and smoother deployments with systemd/Docker adjustments. Technologies/skills demonstrated: backend feature work, data handling and validation, admin UI improvements, deployment readiness, and cross-team collaboration.
October 2024
17 Commits • 6 Features
Oct 1, 2024October 2024 (2024-10) delivered a focused set of features and hardening across mysociety/fixmystreet, driving business value through security, branding consistency, and user experience improvements. Key work spanned admin access controls, National Highways cobranding and UX clarifications, enhanced reporting UX for TfL bus stops, Bulky Waste reporting enhancements (Peterborough), branding alignment, and UI stability improvements.
17 Commits • 6 Features
Oct 1, 2024October 2024 (2024-10) delivered a focused set of features and hardening across mysociety/fixmystreet, driving business value through security, branding consistency, and user experience improvements. Key work spanned admin access controls, National Highways cobranding and UX clarifications, enhanced reporting UX for TfL bus stops, Bulky Waste reporting enhancements (Peterborough), branding alignment, and UI stability improvements.
October 2024
September 2024
2 Commits • 2 Features
Sep 1, 2024September 2024 highlights for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered two key enhancements that improve security alignment and user experience, with traceable commits. Implemented Entra-based Department Lookup for OIDC Authentication to improve role assignment by department (commit 279f9b98a4755ad48a882842755a63f643385139). Added UI logic to suppress displaying updates when there are no meaningful state changes, reducing UI clutter (commit 36107fc5413a88f42334e6a479860faf33193cb7). These changes reduce admin overhead, improve access-control accuracy, and deliver a cleaner, faster user experience across the application.
September 2024
2 Commits • 2 Features
Sep 1, 2024September 2024 highlights for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered two key enhancements that improve security alignment and user experience, with traceable commits. Implemented Entra-based Department Lookup for OIDC Authentication to improve role assignment by department (commit 279f9b98a4755ad48a882842755a63f643385139). Added UI logic to suppress displaying updates when there are no meaningful state changes, reducing UI clutter (commit 36107fc5413a88f42334e6a479860faf33193cb7). These changes reduce admin overhead, improve access-control accuracy, and deliver a cleaner, faster user experience across the application.
August 2024
5 Commits • 4 Features
Aug 1, 2024August 2024 achievements: Delivered four user-facing features and one critical data-integrity fix across the mysociety/fixmystreet repository. Key features delivered include: Traffic Signal Asset Details retrieval/display to support traffic management decisions; Booking Payments Visibility to show already paid amounts for existing bookings, increasing user transparency; Bulky Report Submission Tracking enhancements adding previous booking IDs and echo IDs to submissions for improved tracking; Area-Based Report Routing for National Highways enabling per-area destination handling to ensure reports reach the correct borough emails. Major bug fix: wrapping the 'select for update' operation in a database transaction to strengthen data integrity during updates. Overall impact: improved transparency for end users, more reliable data handling, and more precise routing and reporting, enabling better service delivery to boroughs and national highways. Technologies/skills demonstrated: backend data access patterns, transactional integrity, area-based routing, data tracking and tracing, and feature-driven development across multiple services.
5 Commits • 4 Features
Aug 1, 2024August 2024 achievements: Delivered four user-facing features and one critical data-integrity fix across the mysociety/fixmystreet repository. Key features delivered include: Traffic Signal Asset Details retrieval/display to support traffic management decisions; Booking Payments Visibility to show already paid amounts for existing bookings, increasing user transparency; Bulky Report Submission Tracking enhancements adding previous booking IDs and echo IDs to submissions for improved tracking; Area-Based Report Routing for National Highways enabling per-area destination handling to ensure reports reach the correct borough emails. Major bug fix: wrapping the 'select for update' operation in a database transaction to strengthen data integrity during updates. Overall impact: improved transparency for end users, more reliable data handling, and more precise routing and reporting, enabling better service delivery to boroughs and national highways. Technologies/skills demonstrated: backend data access patterns, transactional integrity, area-based routing, data tracking and tracing, and feature-driven development across multiple services.
August 2024
July 2024
1 Commits • 1 Features
Jul 1, 2024July 2024 performance for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered a Payment Confirmation and Traceability Enhancement During Amendments feature that improves payment accountability across problem amendments. Implemented storage and backend transmission of all payment references and amounts during amendments, added a recursive method to gather all payment details linked to a problem, and updated the comment structure to embed this information for auditability. No major bugs fixed this month. Overall impact: improved financial traceability, easier reconciliation, and stronger audit trails, enabling faster issue resolution and reduced payment disputes. Technologies/skills demonstrated: backend data modeling, recursive data gathering, data consistency, commenting/audit trail enhancements, and integration with backend services.
July 2024
1 Commits • 1 Features
Jul 1, 2024July 2024 performance for mysociety/fixmystreet: Delivered a Payment Confirmation and Traceability Enhancement During Amendments feature that improves payment accountability across problem amendments. Implemented storage and backend transmission of all payment references and amounts during amendments, added a recursive method to gather all payment details linked to a problem, and updated the comment structure to embed this information for auditability. No major bugs fixed this month. Overall impact: improved financial traceability, easier reconciliation, and stronger audit trails, enabling faster issue resolution and reduced payment disputes. Technologies/skills demonstrated: backend data modeling, recursive data gathering, data consistency, commenting/audit trail enhancements, and integration with backend services.
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Quality Metrics
Correctness90.8%
Maintainability88.2%
Architecture85.4%
Performance85.0%
AI Usage20.2%
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