Matt Brown

Overview

27 years in software engineering, the last 1 at Umber Grid, where I lead the growth team. Reduced cloud spend on growth by 19% in two quarters. Before that: Bank Central Asia and OCBC. Home cook with strong opinions about biryani.

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Experience

1. CTO

   Jan 2026 - Present
   Umber Grid · 9 mo · Full-time · Sydney, Australia
   • Reduced cloud spend on growth by 18% in two quarters.
   • Moved 67% of growth traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
2. Staff Full-Stack Engineer

   Sep 2022 - Jan 2026
   Bank Central Asia · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Sydney, Australia
   • Grew the growth team from 6 to 27 engineers.
   • Led the migration of 14 services to Node.js.
3. Staff Full-Stack Engineer

   Sep 2020 - Sep 2022
   OCBC · 2 yr · Full-time · Sydney, Australia
   • Mentored 6 engineers through their first promotion.
4. Principal Engineer

   Feb 2018 - Sep 2020
   TSMC · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Sydney, Australia
   • Led or co-led 37 investments, 2 of them now at Series B or later.
   • Previously an operator for 5 years before investing.
5. Staff Full-Stack Engineer

   Jun 2014 - Feb 2018
   Grab · 3 yr 8 mo · Contract · Sydney, Australia
   • Grew the growth team from 4 to 25 engineers.
   • Shipped 27 launches on the growth team without a rollback.

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Education

1. Tsinghua University

   BEng, Computer Engineering
   1995 - 1999