Matthew Reid
Aerospace Simulation R&D Engineer
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Reid is an Aerospace Simulation R&D Engineer with 13 years of experience blending real-time flight dynamics, control systems and advanced rendering techniques. He has led core simulation and R&D work for VTOL and helicopter projects—designing multi-core architectures, flight dynamics engines and autonomous ship-landing autopilots—while also contributing deep graphics expertise in raytracing, volume rendering and shader development from his time in feature-film rendering. Comfortable in C++, Java, Python and tool development for Houdini/Maya, he pairs rigorous engineering practices (SOLID, Clean Code) with artist-facing pipeline work. Based in Melbourne, he brings a rare cross-disciplinary skill set that spans low-level optimization and high-level system integration, making him effective at turning research ideas into production-ready simulation and rendering systems.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Coursework, Computer Science, Graduate Coursework, Computer Science at Royal Melbourne Institute of TechnologyB. Aerospace Engineering, B. Aerospace Engineering at Monash University
Github Skills (65)
cmake10
openscenegraph10
rendering-engine10
cpp10
qt10
dynamicobject10
image-generator10
opengl10
git10
dataflow-programming10
graph10
geospatial-visualization10
model-view10
flight-simulation10
opengl-es10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Piraxus/OrbiterSkyboltClient
Aug 2021 - Jun 2024
Skybolt Engine graphics client for Orbiter Spaceflight Simulator
Contributions:3 releases, 19 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 11 months
graphic
matthew-reid/OpenSceneGraph
Aug 2020 - Jan 2026
OpenSceneGraph git repository
Contributions:12 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 6 months
git-repositoryopenscenegraph
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