Matt Stevenson
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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SeniorMatt Stevenson is a software engineering leader with 13 years of full-stack experience, currently guiding platform development as Head of Engineering at Fat Zebra in Sydney. He combines hands-on development across Ruby on Rails and Django with strategic leadership, having led Fat Zebra's engineering team since 2021 and previously served as Engineering Team Lead. A dedicated open-source contributor, he worked on the Django-based Mezzanine CMS, enhancing UI/UX behavior, documentation, and dependency management across front-end and back-end code. His career spans senior developer and team leadership roles at IDG Communications and various Rails-focused shops, giving him a practical, product-focused perspective on building reliable, scalable systems. He excels at mentoring developers, aligning technical delivery with business goals, and turning complex requirements into maintainable platform solutions.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (8)
cms10
python10
django10
javascript8
documentation8
html7
css6
macos5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
stephenmcd/mezzanine
Nov 2012 - Feb 2014
CMS framework for Django
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Matt made several contributions to the Mezzanine CMS framework for Django. They addressed UI/UX issues by implementing specific behaviors, such as handling Cmd+Click on macOS, updating documentation, and fixing HTML entity output. Additionally, the user modified dependencies by updating URLs and links, and adding system package requirements. These changes touched both the front-end and back-end aspects of the project.
cmscms-frameworkpythondjangoframework
mattoc/ruby_au
Aug 2018 - Jun 2019
The ruby.org.au website
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 13 branches in 10 months
railssinatrajekyllruby
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