Matthew Hallsworth
Head Of Engineering at Launtel
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolMatthew Hallsworth is a Head of Engineering based in Melbourne with a 25+ year technical career and a decade of leadership experience modernising web platforms and delivery practices. He specialises in backend systems and SaaS platforms, with deep roots in PHP-based architectures, Drupal, and API-driven integrations, and practical DevOps experience across AWS, Puppet/Ansible, Docker, and CI/CD. Matthew has led cross-functional teams and distributed engineering units, improving release cadence and developer confidence while guiding product and content stakeholders toward scalable solutions. Recently he has driven a company-wide technology modernization at Launtel and previously shaped government CMS strategy for the Single Digital Presence program. Beyond hands-on engineering, he blends architecture, mentoring and agile management to turn legacy systems into maintainable, future-ready platforms. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic technical direction that balances risk, delivery speed and long-term maintainability.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
VCE, VCE at Catholic Regional CollegeBachelor of Engineering, Software Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering, Software Systems Engineering at RMIT University
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Github Skills (20)
testing9
facebook9
dynamodb8
javascript8
html-to-docx8
credit7
laravel7
php6
aws6
google-docs6
eloquent6
converter5
router4
doc3
http-router3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
matthew-hallsworth/is-not-negative
Sep 2018 - Jul 2019
Checks if a number is not negative. All credit to is-not-positive for the inspiration
Contributions:19 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 10 months
javascriptcheckscreditinspiration
krakerag/experian-qas
Oct 2018 - Sep 2019
A small PHP library to interface with the Experian QAS postcode search service
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 1 tag in 11 months
phpexperiansearch-servicepostcodephp-library
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