About

I’m Jason Matthew, an Engineering Manager based in Brisbane, Australia. I lead three AI teams and a Search team at Squiz — 30+ engineers building AI platforms, content intelligence, conversational search, and digital asset management. I’m also still one of the top code contributors on the projects I lead, because I believe you can’t lead what you don’t understand.

Lead by Example

I don’t think you have to choose between leading and building. The best engineering leaders I’ve worked with stay close to the craft — not as a hobby, but because it makes every other part of the job better. You give better code reviews when you’re writing code. You make better architecture calls when you’ve felt the pain of a bad abstraction. You earn more trust when the team sees you in the trenches with them.

By night I ship side projects — SaaS products, algorithm visualizers, tools that scratch an itch. Not because I have to, but because building things is how I think.

What I’ve Done

• Built AI platforms for content digestion and conversational search from zero across three teams
• Shipped a 95% operational burn reduction by migrating legacy infrastructure to Cloudflare
• Got our AWS S3 Vector scaling work featured at re:Invent 2025
• Unblocked a multi-year feature drought across our Search & AI unit
• Led Digital Asset Management integrations with Bynder and Squiz’s own DAM system
• Launched FormRecap, a form abandonment recovery SaaS built entirely on Cloudflare
• Built sortalgorithms.com, an interactive sorting algorithm visualizer
• Built mynextpublicholiday.com, a leave optimizer for 100+ countries

Outside Work

When I’m not at a keyboard, I’m usually on two wheels or two feet. I race road and ride mountain bikes — with a lifelong goal to clear A-line at Whistler Bike Park, a dream I’ve had since visiting Canada as a kid. I also run marathons, and I won’t stop until I beat Will Ferrell’s 3:56. He’s the benchmark. Don’t ask why.