Principal Engineer at AWS in Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺. I write up what actually works: fine-tuning local models, building simple things on AWS that scale well, and mucking around with my homelab.
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I’m Matt, a Principal Engineer at AWS here in Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺. This blog is where I write up the work that’s held up.
Most of my time goes on Python tooling and AI agents, fine-tuning open-source vision models like Qwen on a Framework Desktop, and a homelab I keep finding reasons to expand. At work and at home I build on AWS, mostly with CDK. When something actually works, I try to write up how and why it did.
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