Matthew Edwards
Software Architect at Skedulo
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Edwards is a software architect and engineering leader based in Queensland, Australia, with roughly two decades of hands-on experience and 11 years in senior roles designing cloud-native, secure, and scalable systems. He has led teams and architecture efforts across industries—from payments at Mastercard to consumer platforms at Comparethemarket and scheduling at Skedulo—delivering microservice and serverless solutions using Go, Java, Node, Scala and AWS technologies. Known for mentoring and driving engineering practices, he has introduced automation, CI/CD, zero-downtime deployments, and functional programming approaches where they boosted velocity and reliability. Matthew pairs deep legacy Java and middleware expertise with modern cloud patterns (DynamoDB, Lambdas, Kubernetes, Cloudflare Workers) and a focus on identity, streaming analytics and productised deployment pipelines. A pragmatic problem-solver, he routinely translates complex business requirements into actionable architecture and reusable tooling, and has a growing academic interest in cyber security through postgraduate study.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate in Information Technology, Information Technology, Distinction, Graduate Certificate in Information Technology, Information Technology, Distinction at Murdoch UniversityMaster of Cyber Security, Computer Science, Master of Cyber Security, Computer Science at Edith Cowan UniversityBachelor of Information Technology, Information Technology, Bachelor of Information Technology, Information Technology at Charles Sturt University
Github Skills (51)
api10
reverse-proxy9
aws-sdk9
tyk9
tcp9
api-gateway9
gateway9
cli9
k8s9
protocols9
command-line-tool9
microservices8
macos8
graphql8
grpc8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
edwardsmatt/dynamocity
Dec 2019 - Jan 2021
Precise/sortable time.Time types for Go and DynamoDB string attributes
Contributions:9 releases, 15 commits, 28 PRs in 1 year 1 month
golangstringsortabledynamodbaws
edwardsmatt/hazelcast-tomcat-sessionmanager
Apr 2018 - Nov 2019
Tomcat Based Web Session Replication
Contributions:16 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 8 months
leiningenhaikumahjongweb-applicationtomcat
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