Matthew is a member of the Drupal community since mid 2007 after being encouraged to share module code, he has continued to learn and share ideas. This includes an early interest in the menu routing and search systems, and lately more passionate about PostgreSQL, figuring out Typed Data, and volunteering as a mentor to help encourage open source contribution.

He actively participates in both the local PHP and JavaScript community, regional Drupal events, enjoys a growing collection of board games, and surprisingly finds himself more of a front end developer and devops recently.

He lives in Columbus, Ohio around lands originally inhabited by the modernly-named "Adena" peoples, and grew up in the east bay of the San Francisco-San Jose Bay Area on lands originally inhabited by the Ohlone peoples.