Matt Cooper is a seasoned infrastructure and platform leader with 13 years of experience building scalable, fault-tolerant web systems and currently leading the ezyVet platform at IDEXX from Auckland. He combines hands-on expertise in AWS, Terraform, CloudFormation, Packer, Chef and Docker with a track record of transforming manual deployments into autoscaling, auto-healing infrastructures across startups and enterprise environments. As a co-founder of ezyVet and former CTO at Common Ledger he has driven migrations, performance rewrites and CI/CD adoption that materially improved scalability and speed. He also contributes to open-source PHP tooling—helping improve a popular Xero API client—demonstrating a practical focus on integrations and developer experience. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture, mentoring and a preference for solving thorny operational problems end-to-end.
A php library for the Xero API, with a cleaner OAuth interface and ORM-like abstraction.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:16 commits, 11 PRs, 36 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to improving the Xero PHP library's functionality and examples. Their work involved fixing authorization links, adding features like refreshing partner API tokens, and implementing query options. They updated the partner example to work with sessions, pull journal collections, and added support for bulk model updates. Further work included correcting model types, fixing signature issues, and generally improving the example code and structure of the underlying classes.
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