Matt was lucky enough to start programming in the mid 1980s when his dad brought home a BBC Micro from work.
He's been making a living as a programmer since the late 1990s, and started trying to sneak agile practices into his work ever since he discovered the C2 Wiki in 2001. He was once fired for doing test-driven development, because he was "going too slow".
In 2008 he joined the fledgeling Cucumber open source project, and in 2011 the first edition of The Cucumber Book, co-written with Aslak Hellesøy, the creator of Cucumber.
In 2013 he founded Cucumber Limited together with Aslak and Julien Biezmans. They grew this consulting and training business to around $1.5m turnover, training thousands of people around the world in Cucumber and Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD), adding Seb Rose and Steve Tooke then Dr. Sal Freudenberg as partners.
Matt developed the practice of Example Mapping whilst training a team in St. Louis, Missouri.
In 2019 Cucumber was acquired by SmartBear and Matt now works for them as full-time lead of the Cucumber Open source project. He's currently focussed on finding ways to tackle the structural sexism and racism in open source.
He lives in the mountain town of Nelson, BC in Canada with his wife Anna and kids Rufus and Torben. He enjoys backcountry skiiing, trail running and woodworking.