Matt Barker
Engineering Manager at Zendesk
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolMatt Barker is an experienced engineering manager based in Melbourne with 11 years in software and a background spanning support, sustaining, and product development at Zendesk. He excels at turning legacy or lightly maintained features—most recently Zendesk’s Sandbox—into reinvigorated, product-focused capabilities while coaching teams through technical and customer-facing complexity. His career began in consulting and Oracle-centric systems, which gave him strong operational instincts and an ability to jump into diverse stacks and troubleshoot hard problems. Known for shifting from tool-centric work to enabling teams, he combines hands-on debugging experience with a pragmatic leadership style that prioritizes learning and steady product improvement.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science at Monash University
Github Skills (37)
heroku4
airbrake4
timezone4
json3
json-schema3
rails3
schema3
ruby3
inspector3
padding2
postgresql2
monitoring2
activerecord2
sql2
capistrano1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
zendesk/requester_timezone_app
Oct 2014 - Sep 2017
Contributions:28 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years
timezonecalendar
jcheatham/airmonitor
Mar 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 3 pushes in 11 months
herokumonitoringairbrakeheroku-app
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