Matt Ward
Lead Engineer at Envato
Geelong, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolMatt Ward is a Lead Engineer with 13 years' experience based in Geelong, Australia, currently driving platform and product work at Envato. He builds high-quality, extensible software with a preference for simplicity, specialising in Ruby/Ruby on Rails, event sourcing, JavaScript/React, Docker and AWS. Matt focuses on delivering measurable business value and long-lived systems, blending hands-on coding with architecture and team leadership. His academic background in web development (RMIT, Distinction) and interactive multimedia informs a pragmatic, user-focused approach to engineering. Outside typical stacks, he brings an interest in event-sourced architectures that reduce complexity over time, helping teams trade short-term speed for long-term maintainability.
14 years of coding experience
Advanced Diploma of Interactive Multimedia, Interactive Multimedia, Advanced Diploma of Interactive Multimedia, Interactive Multimedia at Victoria UniversityBachelor of Information Technology: Internet & Computing, Web Development, Graduated with Distinction, Bachelor of Information Technology: Internet & Computing, Web Development, Graduated with Distinction at RMIT University
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Github Skills (47)
event-sourcing9
cqrs9
domain-driven-design8
slack-bot8
html6
fading6
database6
php6
http-response6
css6
jquery6
ruby6
redux6
ajax6
javascript6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
envato/wordpress-https
Aug 2012 - Aug 2012
Contributions:4 commits in 1 day
mjward/afl-stats
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 3 branches in 13 days
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