Matt Cochrane
Software Engineer Founder Business Owner at Awebit
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolMatt Cochrane is a seasoned software engineer, founder and engineering leader with over a decade of experience delivering Java-based, data-driven web applications across digital marketing, telecommunications and travel. He combines hands-on technical depth in Java, Spring, Hibernate and front-end stacks with proven people leadership—building autonomous, high-performing teams and coaching managers through promotions and performance cycles. As founder of Awebit he still ships production systems and manages hosting automation with Ansible, while his enterprise roles at TripAdvisor, Mark43 and others show a track record of scaling platforms, refactoring performance bottlenecks and integrating complex partner ecosystems. Known for pragmatic architecture and cross-region knowledge transfer, he balances operational ownership with strategic delivery during periods of significant change. Based in Sydney, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a habit of turning messy legacy systems into reliable, maintainable services.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Wollongong
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Github Skills (31)
binaries10
homebrew10
administration10
utility10
command-line-tool10
macos10
clipboard-manager10
clipboard10
cli10
textmate9
tokenizer9
swift9
xcode8
theming7
objective-c7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mattDavo/yippy-web
Sep 2019 - Jun 2021
Website for Yippy
Contributions:1 PR, 58 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 10 months
mattDavo/Editor
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
Language grammar tokenizer and theming/syntax highlighter with integrated editor.
Contributions:78 commits, 4 PRs, 70 pushes in 1 month
textmateintegratedsyntax-highlightergrammarhighlighter
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