Matt Wlazlo
Lead Developer, Spend Management at Employment Hero
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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SeniorMatt Wlazlo is a pragmatic engineering leader with 20+ years of hands-on experience and a decade in senior roles, currently leading Spend Management development at Employment Hero from Sydney. He blends deep systems expertise—network protocol analysis, kernel debugging, distributed systems design—with strong coding chops in Go, C++, TypeScript, and Java to solve complex operational problems. His background spans startups, telecom (Telstra), FinTech, IoT (Ubiik), and government, giving him a knack for turning messy legacy systems into maintainable, performant platforms. An active open-source contributor, he improved a Go JSON-schema-to-struct generator to handle recursive arrays, nested refs and robust marshalling, reflecting attention to corner cases most engineers miss. Living between Taipei and Sydney, he pairs pragmatic delivery with curiosity-driven engineering and pattern-focused optimisation.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (5)
go10
json-schema10
api-design8
data-structure7
data-structures7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
a-h/generate
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Generates Go (golang) Structs from JSON schema.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 9 days
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on improving the `generate` tool, which generates Go structs from JSON schema. Their contributions centered around fixing issues related to multi-type, nested references, nested arrays, and additional properties in the generated code. They also added support for recursive arrays and references, and improved the marshal and unmarshal functionalities, enhancing the tool's capabilities. The changes involved modifications to the `generator.go` and `jsonschema/jsonschema.go` files.
golangstructscode-generatorcodegeneratorjson-schema
mwlazlo/nokia-impact-dc
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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