Hello, I'm Matthew

I'm a Delivery Principal at Version 1 with 8 years' experience leading high-value public sector projects, working at the UK Government - Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.

My background is in software engineering, which I still pursue as a hobby. I've worked on healthcare programmes including the NHS App, UK Health Security Agency, and NIHR.

This site showcases my personal projects and occasional thoughts on what I'm working on.

hello@matthewdeaves.com

GitHub

Automating Performance Tests on a Performa 6200

How MCP servers and Claude Code skills turned manual hardware testing into an automated workflow. From FileZilla hell to one-command benchmarks on a 30-year-old Mac.

Hardware

10 February 2026

Retro Mac Power Supplies and PS3 Maintenance

Two hardware projects: fixing dead power supplies in my Macintosh Performa 630 and 6200 with a cheap SFX PSU mod, and a PS3 thermal paste replacement.