Matthew Moss
Head Of Engineering, Premonition at Shippit
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Moss is a pragmatic engineering leader and co-founder with 11 years of experience building high-throughput logistics platforms now leading Premonition as Head of Engineering at Shippit. He helped scale systems that have powered hundreds of millions of deliveries, blending hands-on backend development (including contributions to the notable Scala doobie JDBC library) with strategic product and team leadership. Comfortable across architecture, operations and hiring, he thrives on tackling first-and-last-mile complexity and turning ambitious technical challenges into reliable production services. Based in Sydney and grounded in a UNSW computer science background, he combines startup grit with academic teaching experience and a focus on helping others realise their potential.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
Github Skills (7)
scala10
functional-programming10
jdbc10
database9
databases9
testing8
sbt7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
typelevel/doobie
Jun 2015 - Jul 2021
Functional JDBC layer for Scala.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the `doobie` library, a functional JDBC layer for Scala. Their work involved enhancing the codebase by adding new features like `ModeUnknown` to the `ParameterMode` enum, fixing ordering issues in core functionalities like `Read.ap` and `Read.product`. They also updated build files and added tests to improve the library's functionality and reliability.
functional-programmingscaladatabasetypeleveljdbc
mdmoss/doobie-codegen
Mar 2016 - Mar 2021
Generate Doobie database code from sql statements.
Contributions:49 releases, 263 commits, 52 PRs in 5 years 1 month
doobiesql-statementssqlstatementsdatabase
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