Matt Fisher
Senior Software Engineer at Arcadia Impact
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Fisher is a senior software engineer based in Melbourne with 16 years of experience building reliable web systems and tooling, currently focused on AI safety and evaluation at Arcadia Impact. He maintains the Inspect Evals repository for the UK AI Security Institute, establishing testing standards and reviewing contributed AI evaluations to ensure correctness and reproducibility. Previously he led development and deployment of Edrolo.com.au and ran a consultancy delivering user-centred, Agile productivity tools, giving him strong product-to-production experience. His open-source contributions include backend enhancements and robust test coverage for django-extensions, demonstrating careful attention to data synchronization, fixtures, and middleware error handling. A former Australian Army engineering officer with degrees in mechatronics, computer science and mathematics, he brings disciplined systems thinking and practical robotics experience to software problems. Colleagues rely on him for rigorous code review, pragmatic testing practices, and bridging research-grade AI evaluation with production-quality engineering.
16 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
B.E. B.Math&CompSci Mechatronics Computer Science Mathematics, B.E. B.Math&CompSci Mechatronics Computer Science Mathematics at University of Adelaide
Github Skills (10)
python10
fixture10
django10
testing10
manager9
management9
gatsbyjs9
manage9
debugging9
pytest7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
django-extensions/django-extensions
Nov 2018 - Jul 2020
This is a repository for collecting global custom management extensions for the Django Framework.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 6 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Matt's contributions focused on enhancing the functionality and testing of the Django Extensions project. They addressed bug fixes related to middleware handling in technical error responses. They implemented and tested features related to data synchronization using the `syncdata` management command, including handling natural keys and unique constraints within fixtures. The user's work included adding tests and fixtures to expose and resolve issues related to data loading.
django-framework
Edrolo/django-url-security
Jun 2023 - Aug 2024
Django library to ensure all endpoints are tested
Contributions:3 releases, 3 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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