Summary
Matt Callanan is a Principal Software Development Engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience leading engineering teams, mentoring developers, and driving DevOps and FinOps initiatives at scale. Currently at Expedia Group in Brisbane, he architects cost-optimized solutions for containerized workloads and defines cross-organizational standards for resource naming and reusable identifiers. He has a track record of applying machine learning to operations—reducing alert fatigue through adaptive detection, diagnosis, and automated remediation—and consistently focuses on improving flow, shortening feedback cycles, and eliminating delivery bottlenecks. A practiced speaker and community builder, Matt co-organises DevOps Brisbane, helped bring DevOps Days to the city, and has presented widely on continuous delivery and making “easy = right.” He blends rigorous engineering discipline with strategic visibility across Business→Dev→Test→Ops→Customer, making him effective at both technical delivery and driving cultural change. Colleagues value him as a pragmatic mentor who pairs cutting-edge technical ability with strong interpersonal skills to uplift teams and systems.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.I.T. Software Engineering, B.I.T. Software Engineering at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
Dip.I.T. Applications Programming, Dip.I.T. Applications Programming at Brisbane Institute of TAFE