Matt Watson Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney

Sydney, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Team Lead on Stash (enterprise git hosting product) since inception, previously a Team Lead on Fisheye/Crucible.

Founder and Director of i3SP - a software consultancy servicing the financial, telephony and transport industries with technical strengths in usability, interface design, performance, distributed systems, directory services, authentication, authorisation and access-control in networked environments.

Security Consultant for Fairfax Interactive, I reviewed the Fairfax Interactive secure credit card payment gateway, checking the access control to the secure gateway, the application level protocol, SSL set-up, network layout, administrator interfaces, firewalls and network access lists. Senior Developer for Arunta, Sydney, I designed and developed software controlling the mass media storage control and housekeeping components of the java-based ACTS2 system for call recording and… Show more Security Consultant for Fairfax Interactive, I reviewed the Fairfax Interactive secure credit card payment gateway, checking the access control to the secure gateway, the application level protocol, SSL set-up, network layout, administrator interfaces, firewalls and network access lists. Senior Developer for Arunta, Sydney, I designed and developed software controlling the mass media storage control and housekeeping components of the java-based ACTS2 system for call recording and archiving.Security Consultant for Westpac, I configured and tested the IBM Secureway Directory server for SSL communications and authentication and the client-side java libraries for SSL JNDI communications.Worked on in-house projects for i3SP, including:* White papers discussing single sign-on security and authentication schemes.* Developed a security framework for controlling access to multiple web-servers configured and controlled from a central replicated directory server. Includes LDAP configuration of the security server and apache module plus integration with JBoss. Access Control used group and roles information referenced by sub-sets of URLs for each server, which controlled access level and could demand re-authentication or higher credential levels.* Designed and developed a multi-domain secure single sign on system to allow user access to multiple web domains with only entering credentials once. System handled redirection back to original request after authenticating and immediate log off of all domains on user request. Integrated with access control plug-in. I implemented on-line demonstration across 4 domains.* Extensions to the Jakarta ANT build system to support multiple versioned dependent projects (similar to what Maven 2 provides) and resolution of third-party dependencies Show less

Architect and Senior Developer in the dbTicket team, a global trade entry and workflow/routing system with several thousand users.Part of the architecture team for a model-driven redesign of the system, I architected the UI validation and OCL rules integration to the data model and analysed existing transformation technologies for importing and exporting the data model to other systems, resulting in the development of a custom DSL-driven bi-directional transformation engine for EMF… Show more Architect and Senior Developer in the dbTicket team, a global trade entry and workflow/routing system with several thousand users.Part of the architecture team for a model-driven redesign of the system, I architected the UI validation and OCL rules integration to the data model and analysed existing transformation technologies for importing and exporting the data model to other systems, resulting in the development of a custom DSL-driven bi-directional transformation engine for EMF based data models, replacing a velocity/XSLT system with vastly improved re-use, code brevity and maintainability. I re-architected and re-wrote the Java Swing UI for trade entry, workflow management and search, improving the interface to make it more user-friendly, seamless and efficient for the users. I developed a model-driven rules engine for validating user input and integrated GUI framework including action and selection management and made many usability, threading and performance improvements to the interface. Added Active Directory Kerberos authentication and threading and performance improvements to the Deutsche Bank TradeServer, an XML gateway to the Imagine Risk Management system.Senior Architect in a core technologies team of seven developers. Designed and developed common components for the world-wide development teams, covering communications, auditing and security.Software was written in Java and C++, using Sybase, TIBCO Rendezvous, SOAP and JBoss. Show less

Senior Developer at the RTA's Traffic Management Branch, working on the next version of the Sydney Controlled Areas Traffic Systems (SCATS). SCATS monitors and controls all the traffic in the Sydney area and is exported world-wide by the RTA.Designed and Developed the Object Distribution Framework (ODF), which was used to implement the SCATS object model for clients and servers. The ODF provided distributed transactional access to domain objects and the high-volume, rapid, distribution… Show more Senior Developer at the RTA's Traffic Management Branch, working on the next version of the Sydney Controlled Areas Traffic Systems (SCATS). SCATS monitors and controls all the traffic in the Sydney area and is exported world-wide by the RTA.Designed and Developed the Object Distribution Framework (ODF), which was used to implement the SCATS object model for clients and servers. The ODF provided distributed transactional access to domain objects and the high-volume, rapid, distribution of updates to those objects, whether from external sources (e.g. data feeds) or internal updates. I was the sole designer and developer providing this distribution framework for a large-scale (5000+ intersections) real-time traffic management system. The framework supported presentation of dynamic client proxies to the client processes, transaction control over commits, rollback and the ability for clients to listen to changes on server object attributes in real time. It supported thousands of objects and thousands of updates per second.Wrote an eclipse EMF based object model designer to promote use of the ODF and implemented the SCATS traffic domain object model and assisted other developers in implementing the SCATS traffic management functionality.Software was written in Java and used Oracle and TIBCOs Rendezvous. Show less

Performed high-level architectural review and design of the E-Commerce Infrastructure, covering client management, security (data security, authentication, authorisation), content management, application management, business reporting and software development support. I designed and implemented the Security System for controlling client access to the SSB Access web site and performed Application Management, Logging and Fault detection infrastructure requirements investigation and high-level… Show more Performed high-level architectural review and design of the E-Commerce Infrastructure, covering client management, security (data security, authentication, authorisation), content management, application management, business reporting and software development support. I designed and implemented the Security System for controlling client access to the SSB Access web site and performed Application Management, Logging and Fault detection infrastructure requirements investigation and high-level design.I developed apache modules, a java security server, back end java services for accessing authorisation and authentication services from applications and design and set-up of the OpenLDAP directory services replication, recovery and fail over. Show less

Support and development on Mortbay’s Jetty web server, development of the London Clearing House's Automated Brokerage Service (ABS) system, work on Macquarie Bank's Macquarie Online website, dynamic web development and fax integration with SAP R3

Returned to Nomura and initially I worked on integrating the Repo trading system into the trading infrastructure.Added Java integration to the AME and developed web interfaces for remotely controlling and monitoring all applications connected to the AME as well as further work on the core AME engine.Software was written in C++ and Java.

Co-Founder of Intelligent Switched Systems, developing intelligent telephony products incorporating secure authentication based on smart cards supplying one-time tokens. Originally focused on over-the-phone authentication but later extended to over-the-web via Netscape plug in.Software used early version of the Jetty Web Server, pre-dating the Java servlet specification, developed by co-founder Greg Wilkins (now of WebTide), to which I made significant contributions.I developed… Show more Co-Founder of Intelligent Switched Systems, developing intelligent telephony products incorporating secure authentication based on smart cards supplying one-time tokens. Originally focused on over-the-phone authentication but later extended to over-the-web via Netscape plug in.Software used early version of the Jetty Web Server, pre-dating the Java servlet specification, developed by co-founder Greg Wilkins (now of WebTide), to which I made significant contributions.I developed the token algorithm, server software providing validation of tokens, authentication of users and access to their details, fraud detection and card blocking algorithms. I utilised server-push web technology (à la cometd, in 1997) to provide browser based integration into an interactive call-center where operators could dial-in and be presented with customer information via their browsers as soon as the caller authenticated.Software was developed in Java V1.0. Show less

Project developing a large-scale integrated trading floor system in C++ based on object oriented and distributed computing principles. The system provided a whole range of middle office applications.I developed OS-level scheduling and event handling libraries integrating Corba, X11 and TIBCO Rendezvous.I designed and implemented the Application Management Environment (AME) system for Nomura, Europe that managed dependencies between core services across 1000+ client and server… Show more Project developing a large-scale integrated trading floor system in C++ based on object oriented and distributed computing principles. The system provided a whole range of middle office applications.I developed OS-level scheduling and event handling libraries integrating Corba, X11 and TIBCO Rendezvous.I designed and implemented the Application Management Environment (AME) system for Nomura, Europe that managed dependencies between core services across 1000+ client and server machines, able to start and stop services as required anywhere on the network, monitoring their state and allowing remote access into the internals of all in-house developed applications as well as fault-tolerance and load balancing. The AME was the first into production (in 1995) rom a 100+ person, 4 year development that is still in use and under active maintenance today.Software was developed in C++. Show less

Developer for Telstra’s Customised Software Solutions Centre. I was a core part of the development team, unique in Telstra for its' rapid engineering approach and development of computer systems to manipulate the traditional phone-exchange protocols. I worked on an innovative Intelligent Network platform, which delivered the Customnet 13 (13NNNN numbers), Telecard, Homelink, Auto-Australia Direct (AAD) as well as a prototype Universal Personal Number service.AAD delivered a global… Show more Developer for Telstra’s Customised Software Solutions Centre. I was a core part of the development team, unique in Telstra for its' rapid engineering approach and development of computer systems to manipulate the traditional phone-exchange protocols. I worked on an innovative Intelligent Network platform, which delivered the Customnet 13 (13NNNN numbers), Telecard, Homelink, Auto-Australia Direct (AAD) as well as a prototype Universal Personal Number service.AAD delivered a global calling card system to production in just 4 months. All software developed under a strong quality system (ISO 9001 accredited) in which I played a major role. I developed the version control and build system, parts of the object communications framework and Integrated threading into software infrastructure. Software was developed in C++ using Sybase and Versant on Solaris, SunOS, Tandems and SCO UNIX. Show less

Bachelor Of Arts, Computer Science, Ancient History

BA program let me study the courses I was interested in , Computer Science, and Ancient History...

Higher School Certificate

Dux of the College, 1987 Australian Mathematics Competition, Distinction 1987, High Distinction 1982 College Prize; Science 1986, 1987.