Mat Brennan
Engineering Manager at Amber Electric
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMat Brennan is an engineering manager based in Melbourne with 14 years of experience building and operating high-throughput distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures across startups and large enterprises. Currently leading engineering at Amber Electric, he previously drove data sourcing and senior technical initiatives at Telstra, combining hands-on system design with people leadership and resourcing strategy. Mat is known for translating complex data and architecture problems into pragmatic, production-ready solutions while actively shaping talent profiles and enabling org-wide strategy. His background spans full lifecycle delivery from early web development and e-commerce platforms to cloud-native services, giving him a rare blend of legacy systems empathy and modern cloud practice. Colleagues describe him as a growth-minded coach who spots development opportunities in engineers and helps them unlock careers, not just deliverables.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Broken Hill High School
English
Github Skills (56)
html10
ember-addon9
linux9
css9
database8
docker-compose8
emberjs8
ember8
graphite8
vscode8
vscode-extension8
javascript8
monitoring8
nix7
observability7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
loadx/html5-wolfenstein3D
May 2012 - Jul 2020
html5-wolfenstein3D
Contributions:21 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 8 years 3 months
loadx/dotfiles
Oct 2022 - Feb 2026
Contributions:10 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 5 months
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