Updated: January 31st, 2010

My name is Matthew, though my friends call me Matt. I’m a 29 year old living in Perth, Western Australia.

I’ve been with my wife Magdalena since August 2002. She works as a secondary English teacher at a school in the hills above Perth, very close to where I grew up. We were engaged in July of 2007 and married in April 2008. It was all quite exciting!

I studied Computer Science at Curtin University of Technology where I met Adam Fitzgerald. Together we started The Frontier Group. It’s a software development company. I work as the company’s Technical Director. My day-to-day tasks involve software planning and development, client management and setting our company’s technical direction. As we’re growing I am moving more towards “big picture” projects and further away from actual programming. I don’t mind this.

Five years ago I started studying Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, training with Adam Metcalf at The Acadamy of Mixed Martial Arts. I’ve competed twice at a national level, finishing fourth in my most recent competition in 2007. I am working towards my purple belt.

I have been using Apple computers for a few years and really like them. Our whole team use MacBook Pro laptops and I like the mixture of Apple’s nice interfaces and UNIX’s reliability.

If you want to get in touch with me, leave a comment on my ‘blog or email me.