Matt Curtis
Independent Consultant (Software Engineering, Operations And Scale)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolMatt Curtis is an experienced software engineer and independent consultant with over three decades in development and 16 years in senior cloud and systems roles, most recently building endpoint and cloud-scale services at Palo Alto Networks, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and AWS. He specializes in low-profile, always-on endpoint agents, scalable compute services and operational excellence—bringing C++, Swift, C#, Java and Python fluency across cloud, security and trading domains. At OCI he helped shape compute and Kubernetes offerings and served as a trusted engineering reviewer and bar raiser, while at AWS he led designs for client and discovery agents used at scale. His background spans embedded systems and games (Atari), real-time trading systems, and teaching/management roles that give him a rare blend of deep systems knowledge and people/operational skills. Based in Melbourne, he often gets pulled into cross-team operational advisory work, reflecting a reputation for making complex systems more reliable and understandable. He pairs hands-on implementation with hiring and review expertise, so engagements typically improve both code and team effectiveness.
16 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Software development, Software development at UdacityMelbourne High SchoolArtificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence at ai-class.com (Stanford Engineering)
Stackoverflow
23,408reputation
3.5mreached
112answers
8questions
unix
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environment-variables
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version-control
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emacs
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bash
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header-files
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Github Skills (88)
emacs10
environment-variables10
macos10
unix9
linux9
csv-parse9
python9
ruby9
bash9
fn9
ssh9
unit-testing9
header-files9
homebrew9
initialization9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mrc/el-csv
May 2011 - May 2016
Parse CSV data in elisp
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 5 years 1 month
elispcsvcsv-dataparserparse
mrc/tla-tools
Apr 2019 - Jun 2019
TLA+ tools for Emacs
Contributions:14 commits, 8 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 month
model-checkinginfinibandsattlaemacs
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