Matt Atterbury
A Man Of Leisure at Retired
Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolMatt Atterbury is a seasoned software engineer with over two decades of experience designing and shipping large-scale distributed systems, most recently spending 12 years at Google on flights.google.com and airline solutions in C++. He has led teams from small pairs to 20 engineers, blending hands-on development with requirements capture, system design, testing and close customer liaison across airline operations and networking domains. His background includes deep domain expertise in airline ops systems—operations control, warehouse management and maintenance tracking—plus earlier work on high-performance backend modules like the PageSpeed Nginx project where he contributed refactors, feature work and system-level QA. Based in Queensland, Australia, he combines practical production engineering with strong systems thinking and a knack for translating complex operational needs into reliable software. Now transitioning from corporate life, he brings rare institutional knowledge of travel tech and large-scale C++ systems to any engineering or advisory role.
15 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc (Hons), Computer Science, B.Sc (Hons), Computer Science at The University of Queensland
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
sh10
script10
shell10
nginx10
backend10
pagespeed10
back-end-development10
scripting10
testing10
caching6
browser6
web-application6
jvm6
grails6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/incubator-pagespeed-ngx
Aug 2011 - Jul 2014
Automatic PageSpeed optimization module for Nginx
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer
Backend Developer & QA EngineerContributions:156 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and testing of the PageSpeed module for Nginx. Their work involved refactoring code, such as renaming functions to improve clarity, and adding new features to manage query parameters and cookies for sticky options. Furthermore, they developed and integrated system tests using shell scripts, aimed at validating the functionality of cookie options, and the overall behavior of the module, ensuring proper configuration and interaction.
nginxpagespeed
matterbury/Brisbane-Bin-Day
Feb 2026 - Feb 2026
Brisbane waste bin collection day sensor for Home Assistant
Contributions:1 release, 22 pushes in 6 days
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