About

I’m Matt Graham. I live on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland with my wife and young son, and I spend most of my mornings in the ocean before most people’s alarms go off.

Professionally, I’ve spent 17-odd years in IT — starting in infrastructure, evolving through the cloud era, and landing where I am now: consulting on Microsoft cloud platforms for government and enterprise organisations. My days are mostly Azure, Microsoft 365, Entra ID, and security architecture. I’m good at it and I enjoy the problem-solving, but I’d be lying if I said it defines me.

What’s got me genuinely excited lately is the intersection of AI and real expert work. Not chatbots or content generators — I mean building tools where an AI reasons through complex problems the way a senior consultant would. I’ve spent months building systems that analyse security configurations, surface risks, and think through implications rather than just checking boxes. The work has taught me things about how AI actually performs under pressure that I haven’t seen written about much elsewhere, which is partly why this site exists.

I never set out to be a developer. I’m an infrastructure and security person who started building things because the tools I needed didn’t exist yet, and AI made it possible to build them without a computer science degree. I think that perspective — coming at AI tooling as a practitioner rather than an engineer — is actually worth something.

Before IT, I had a brief stint in the entertainment industry — landed what I thought was my dream job by 21, then walked away from it. That pattern of chasing something, arriving, and realising it wasn’t the thing has shaped how I approach everything now.

These days I’m deliberate about how I spend my time. I surf four or five mornings a week. I volunteer with my local surf club and recently finished my bronze medallion. I read a lot of philosophy — Thoreau, Nietzsche, whoever else helps me think about what a well-lived life actually looks like. No formal training in any of it; I just find that the questions philosophers ask are the same ones I keep bumping into.

I moved to the coast because I got tired of optimising for career progression at the expense of everything else. I wanted to be in the water, be present for my family, and do meaningful work without it consuming me. So far, so good.