Mat Bettinson
Principal Research Software Engineer at The Australian National University
Canberra, Australia
Summary
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SeniorMat Bettinson is a Principal Research Software Engineer with 11 years bridging language, culture and technology, now leading research software at ANU after roles at QUT and Charles Darwin University. His trajectory from videogames and international product roles into linguistics (BA double major and honours) and a PhD-driven research practice informs pragmatic prototype engineering for minority and Indigenous language data. He designs mobile and language technologies in close collaboration with communities, turning ethnolinguistic needs into deployable, research-grade software and data pipelines. Equally comfortable in academic and professional settings, he combines data science, full-stack development and UX-aware engineering to preserve and mobilise cultural knowledge. An unusual strength is his lived experience of shifting careers midstream, giving him fluency in both stakeholder engagement and rapid experimental development.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Chinese
Stackoverflow
533reputation
57kreached
4answers
24questions
Github Skills (73)
ui-components10
speech10
waveform10
javascript10
ionic10
music10
angular10
vue10
ios10
frontend10
react10
stencil9
audio9
html9
command-line-interface9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
aikuma/webaudio
Feb 2018 - Jul 2019
A microphone library for language apps
Contributions:20 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
androidmicrophone
aikuma/aikuma-ng
Jan 2016 - Aug 2016
Speech annotation web app for regular folk
Contributions:196 commits, 3 PRs, 143 pushes in 6 months
speech
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