Matthew is a software engineer working at Rackspace Australia, more specifically Rackspace Private Cloud where he primarily works on upstream Openstack. Based in Melbourne, he has been hacking on Swift for about a year. Matthew was the co-founder of the Kororaa Linux distribution which has given him careers in both Linux system administration and software development. During his time with Rackspace he has worked both as an Enterprise Linux Sysadmin based in the UK and is now back at his roots as software developer in Australia.