Melbourne, Australia

Matt Kellock

Group DevSecOps Lead at Dxel

20+ years turning complex, multisystemic problems into working software and high-performing teams.

Matt Kellock

About

Throughout my career I have developed a comprehensive range of skills and experience in finding and solving complex, often multisystemic, business problems in IT, corporate, sales and administrative environments. This has given me extensive technical team delivery, development, and management experience at a global level.

Ultimately working with people, good luck for opportunities to inspire success, coaching, mentoring, communication, and strategic planning through an IT lens. I thrive in a workplace where I can apply my technical knowledge to practical ways to improve principles, practices, systems, and outcomes.

Experience

Jan 2023 – Present

Group DevSecOps Lead

Dxel (formerly PayGroup)

  • Leads DevOps function for Dxel's PayGroup subsidiary
  • Manages globally distributed engineering teams across Australia, India, and UAE
  • Hands-on technical leadership across AWS, Kubernetes, and cloud-native infrastructure
AWS Kubernetes Terraform DevSecOps Linux
Oct 2020 – Dec 2021

Chief Technology Officer

Smart Badge

  • Led a workplace optimisation SaaS and wearables platform: 500M messages/month, 80k users
  • Implemented Agile, CI/CD, and governance frameworks within a Lean-principled structure
  • Initiated ISO 27001 compliance journey; oversaw new hardware and firmware releases
SaaS IoT CI/CD Agile ISO 27001
Jul 2016 – Oct 2020

Technical Lead

Iress

  • Led cloud adoption and migration of SaaS platforms across financial services products
  • Technical cost modelling, cloud architecture, and team uplift
AWS Cloud Migration Fintech
Jul 2006 – Jul 2016

Assistant Team Lead / Senior Developer

Iress

  • ~10 years growing from senior developer to team leadership within enterprise fintech
  • Coordinated global DevOps and build/release requirements
  • Oversaw major reporting subsystem overhaul to handle significant client volume growth
Enterprise DevOps Team Leadership
Oct 2014 – Oct 2017

General Manager

Imperial Crest Hair Company Pty Ltd

  • Owned all financial, marketing, strategy, growth, and IT functions
  • Built internal CRM software, driving a $40k increase in client visit regularity
  • Achieved 550%+ revenue-per-retail-site growth over 7 years
CRM Business Growth Operations
Jul 2003 – ~2009

Senior Developer

Pension Administration Systems Pty Ltd

  • Enterprise pension administration software development
Enterprise Software

Certifications

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (002)

HashiCorp · Issued Mar 2024

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Amazon Web Services · Issued Jan 2021

Contact

Happy to connect — reach out via email or LinkedIn.