Matt Colman
Senior Engineering Manager at Atlassian
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Colman is a Sydney-based Senior Engineering Manager with 11 years of experience leading frontend teams and shipping large-scale web products at companies like Atlassian and Domain. He blends hands-on JavaScript/React expertise with a background in animation and games development, which informs his obsession with 60 fps performance, UX and polished design systems. A pragmatic leader, he champions pair programming, knowledge sharing and career development to help engineers work effectively and stay motivated. He’s shipped everything from responsive SPAs and React Native apps to full-stack Node/React systems and custom HTML5 games, and prefers great user experiences over clever code. Outside of work he’s a dad and drummer, bringing a creative, disciplined mindset to product and team craft.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programming, Computer Programming at University of New South Wales
English, javascript
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (196)
react-carousel10
scroll10
react-native-module10
hilo10
mobile-web10
shared-state10
native-module10
codepush10
game-development10
javascript10
phaser10
animation10
rendering10
pinch10
easing10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mattcolman/jira-prepare-commit-msg
Sep 2021 - Feb 2024
Husky Git hook to add JIRA ticket ID into the commit message.
Contributions:2 PRs, 18 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 5 months
git-hookhuskyjiracommithook
mattcolman/phaser-manifest-loader
Jan 2017 - Jan 2018
Phaser Manifest Loader
Contributions:24 commits, 7 PRs, 44 pushes in 11 months
manifestwebpack2webpackphaserloader
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