Matt works at the University of Bristol in the JGI as a Research Software Engineer. Matt joined the University in 2016, coming from the University of Birmingham where he provided support for the LHC's world-wide computing platform. He worked to support the synthetic biology community at Bristol as part of the Advanced Computing Research Centre (ACRC). He has a strong background in Physics and computational modelling. He is especially interested in making research software more sustainable through the use of testing, version control and automation of processes. He leads the software engineering teaching team in the RSE group in the ACRC.