The Company
Matimar was founded in Varna, Bulgaria at the start of 2024 by Matthew Cooke and Maria Boneva, who are the owners of the company.
The purpose of the company is to deliver consultancy services in the area of high integrity software to the European market.
Service Delivery
Our way of working is to first take the time to understand the client’s business and develop understanding of their embedded software applications, and to truly understand the problems that they are trying to solve before making proposals for how Matimar can help.
We understand that on any project circumstances change, so we manage our service delivery in a flexible way, so that while there is always a detailed plan provided to the client for what we will deliver over the immediately upcoming period, we also remain flexible to adapt to changes.
Matimar does not prefer any particular tool, technology or methodology. We believe that each has its pros and cons and there is no “silver bullet” that will solve all problems. Because we are tool, technology and methodology agnostic we can help our clients to do what is best for them, selecting from the complete range of available methodologies, tools and technologies.
Matimar delivers our services primarily from our offices in Bulgaria, with visits to client sites according to the needs of the client.
Our Technical Manager will be personally involved in the delivery of all services, to ensure that the service provided is of high quality and meets clients’ needs.
Languages
All technical work is at present carried out in English. We can translate technical material between English and Bulgarian if needed for a project (we do not, however provide a translation service).
For non-technical communication, we can do this in either English or Bulgarian.
The Team
Maria Boneva
General Manager
Matthew Cooke
Technical Manager
Matthew is a highly experienced embedded software and functional safety engineer, combining hands-on development of safety-critical real-time software with technical leadership and functional safety expertise.
He has led internationally distributed engineering teams while remaining a hands-on designer and developer, particularly in the areas of hard real-time systems, “bare metal” time-driven architectures, hardware abstraction layers, device drivers and bootloaders. His experience includes recovering problematic legacy products, developing new safety-related architectures, implementing and verifying high integrity software, and establishing development processes for safety-related software and systems.
He has also worked as a functional safety consultant across automotive, industrial, nuclear, rail, aerospace and medical systems. His experience includes software safety analysis, independent safety assessment, safety and quality/process audits, safety planning, safety concepts, safety test strategy and safety-case development.
He is a Chartered Engineer and has certifications in both functional safety and cyber security.
Dr. Juliet Cooke
Subject Area Expert
Juliet is a mathematician and researcher in the fields of quantum algebra, category theory, and geometry, combined with practical experience in cryptographic analysis. She has held postdoctoral research positions at the University of Nottingham, the Max‑Planck‑Institut für Mathematik, and the Université Catholique de Louvain, where she developed novel mathematical structures, applied computational techniques to complex abstract problems, published in international journals, and presented her work at conferences across multiple countries. She is an experienced teacher and tutor of mathematics.