Matthew Lake is a software engineer with extensive experience in software development and education. Matthew has interned at Amazon, where a library for API logging was developed, and Tehnika Pty Ltd, gaining full stack web development skills in JavaScript, PHP, and C#. As a casual demonstrator at The University of Queensland, Matthew prepared lessons and taught classes, receiving a commendable student feedback rating of 4. Matthew's research contributions include collaborating with Professor Ian Hayes to enhance Java with interface-like capabilities. Currently, Matthew is engaged with Google on backend infrastructure for photo sharing, leading significant migrations that earned recognition for code health. Matthew holds a Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Arts, graduating with First Class Honours from The University of Queensland and participated in an exchange program at UCL.