Matt Hayward
Director & Co-Founder at RMIT University
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolMatt Hayward is a Melbourne-based software leader and co-founder with 12 years of hands-on experience building web and mobile products, currently running Pipelabs and teaching software engineering at RMIT. He has led engineering teams as a CTO and lead engineer, delivering cloud-native, microservices architectures with Java, Node.js, React, Docker and AWS. Matt combines product-focused thinking with deep front-end and UX sensibilities—evidenced by open-source contributions that improved git integrations for Adobe Brackets and enhanced video handling in a popular jQuery lightbox. He’s comfortable moving between strategy and implementation, from architecting scalable real-time data front-ends to setting up CI/CD and staging infrastructure. Known for introducing modern workflows like Git flow, containerized staging and component-driven development into agencies, he balances entrepreneurial drive with a penchant for elegant technical solutions. Outside work he keeps current with bleeding-edge tooling, turning subtle UX and security fixes into measurable product improvements.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
VCE, VCE at Leongatha Secondary CollegeBachelor of Software Engineering, Bachelor of Software Engineering at RMIT University
English
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Github Skills (17)
git10
javascript10
jquery10
user-interface10
ui-design10
integrations10
uid10
front-end-development10
videojs10
debug9
html8
interface-design8
graphical-user-interface8
menu-item7
menubar7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
brutaldesign/swipebox
Mar 2014 - Jul 2014
A touchable jQuery lightbox
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 comment in 4 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and usability of the jQuery lightbox plugin. They implemented support for various video URLs, including YouTube short URLs, and ensured videos were reloaded when navigating slides. Additionally, the user addressed several bugs, like programmatically closing the lightbox and improving the auto-hide feature of the navigation bars, and introduced the option for looping at the end. Their contributions improved the video handling and overall user experience of the plugin.
jqueryswipe-gesturesjavascriptswipelightbox
brackets-userland/brackets-git
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
brackets-git — git extension for adobe/brackets
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 7 days
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on enhancing the git extension's functionality and user interface within Adobe Brackets. Their contributions included adding a "push" shortcut, which involved modifications to multiple files including panel, preferences, and settings dialog. Further, the user improved the usability by adjusting the positioning of the push shortcut's textbox and added a top-level Git menu. Finally, the user implemented a change that escapes strings containing the remote repository for security purposes.
git-extensionadobeversion-controlbracketsadobe-brackets
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