March 12th, 2010

About Me

Find out who this Matt Fellows guy is, what makes him tick, what he's doing and why.

— Matt Fellows —

Who am I?

I’m a 27 year-old Developer from Melbourne, Australia. As you can see, I’m a lean 6’3” so I spend a fair bit of time at the gym trying to reverse that (the leanness, that is). Outside of online development, I enjoy playing basketball (Bogan Celtics — don’t ask) and occasionally my dusty guitar, walking my dog, waterskiing & wakeboarding in summer and other outdoorsy stuff.

What makes me tick?

I love my job. I think the Web is awesome. I enjoy building product experiences using the latest open source technologies, open standards and good design with a focus on the user experience.

As with most developers, I enjoy problem solving and the challenges that come with it.

Where am I now?

I’m currently the Team Leader, Web Development at Melbourne IT. My role consists of doing 3 things well: managing people, optimising processes and building awesome online product experiences. I still enjoy coding from time to time but often work gets in the way of that…

Read more about my time at Melbourne IT.

Development \ Programming experience

  • Web Development: (X)HTML(5), JavaScript, CSS, XML\XSLT, Apache, PHP, Zend Framework
  • Enterprise Java: JSP, JSF, Spring, Spring Web Flow, Spring MVC, Tomcat, JBoss (basic)
  • SOA Development (basic): Fuse ESB (Apache ServiceMix, Camel, ActiveMQ) using contract-first development with CXF
  • OSGI: Eclipse Virgo, OSGi bundles (Bnd Tools, Bundlor, Maven Bundle Plugin)
  • Web Services (client-side): SOAP, REST
  • Testing: TDD, PHPUnit, JUnit, TestNG, Selenium
  • SCM & Continuous Integration: Hudson, CVS, SVN, Maven, Ant
  • Development Process: Agile (Scrum), SDLC

Completed Qualifications \ Training Courses

  • Double degree in Cognitive Science \ Computer Science from La Trobe University (Psychology major)
  • Rich Web Applications with Spring – 4 day instructor led training on Spring MVC, Spring Web Flow and related presentation & client-side technologies
  • 3 day intensive FUSE training on Apache ServiceMix, Camel and CXF (http://www.fusesource.com/)
  • 1 day short course on SCRUM conducted by SEED (http://www.seedim.com.au)
  • 3 day Alfresco Enterprise CMS advanced topics workshop conducted by SEED (http://www.seedim.com.au)
  • 2 day Siebel 8.1 Fundamentals conducted by Oracle