Matthew King is a seasoned software engineer based in Perth with 13 years of experience delivering backend services, web UIs, desktop apps, databases and infrastructure across mining and vehicle safety/logistics domains. Comfortable as both a solo contributor and team member, he blends hands-on C#/.NET craftsmanship with involvement in architecture, product strategy and project management. A long-time consultant and contractor, he has a track record of successful remote delivery and ongoing roles at Valiant Software, Nimble Tech and Blank-it. Matthew is an active open-source author—his DeviceId library demonstrates pragmatic attention to versioning and cross-platform device identification—and he shares learnings through a technical blog. Practical, curious and community-oriented, he favors robust, reusable tooling that solves real operational problems.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Software, Honors, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Software, Honors at The University of Western Australia
A simple library providing functionality to generate a 'device ID' that can be used to uniquely identify a computer.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:4 releases, 146 commits, 25 PRs in 7 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Matthew appears to have developed a simple library for generating device IDs. The initial commit established the project structure with C# project files, and subsequent commits focused on implementing core components, including a device ID builder, various ID components (WMI, file-based), and extensions. They also added XML documentation and refactored some parts of the code. The user has also implemented a system for device ID versioning.
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Matthew King - Software Engineer at Valiant Software