Hey đź‘‹. I’m Matt.
I specialize in making complex systems delightfully simple for developers—navigating the messy middle between Infrastructure, Security, and Business stakeholders to ship products with measurable impact.
What I’m looking for (October 2025): Product leadership roles where I can scale AI-augmented developer experiences, design internal platform products, or transform how organizations build and ship software.
Recent obsessions
AI Integration at Scale — Pioneering GenAI workflows (ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Cursor) across enterprise platforms, reducing deployment time by 60% and onboarding by 50% while balancing innovation with governance.
Product Operating Models — Transforming how platform teams work through better frameworks, value measurement, and systematic enablement. I love turning “we should explore AI” into shipped products with measurable ROI.
Product domains I love
Cloud platform products — Scaled internal developer platform from pilot to 4,600+ weekly active users (92% adoption). Led $200M infrastructure portfolio: 500,000 containers, 50,000 VMs, 8PB storage serving 5,000 engineers with 99.99% reliability.
AI-augmented workflows — Integrated GenAI tools (ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Cursor) across enterprise infrastructure, reducing deployment time by 60% and onboarding by 50%. Built AI-assisted documentation systems cutting planning time from 2 days to 3 hours.
Developer-centric educational platforms — Grew technical content platform from 10M to 22.4M visitors generating 25M in influenced pipeline. Achieved 3x deployment frequency through product-led operations and systematic friction removal.
Influential open source frameworks — Led meaningful influence in observability, database, Kubernetes, and virtualization ecosystems through community-led growth and developer experience optimization.
Community leadership
Communities I’ve built — Co-founded DevRel Collective (2,000+ members). Co-hosted The Geek Whisperers podcast (140 episodes, 100K+ listeners). Designed Opensource.com Correspondent program, CHAOSScast, and Enable Architect. Led community programs for Sensu, Snap, EMC Elect, and Basho.
Open source contributions — Led Kubernetes SIG contributor experience. Defined CHAOSS value metrics. See my GitHub contributions for the many sprinkles of PRs I’ve shared across the internet.
Learning communities — Deep in systems thinking: Team Topologies, Wardley Maps, John Cutler. Product management: Melissa Perri, SVPG. Technology: Kubernetes, CNCF, DevOps, Python, Go.
Writing
Popular articles include The right and wrong way to set Python 3 as default on a Mac and:
My Product Management Learning Path
I’ve been thinking a lot about my learning path as a product leader.
My path to Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)
My summary of a lifetime of effort… My Why I’ve learned two corollaries about my memory:
Tips for your first 30 days of remote work
I have spent over 10 years working primarily remote, and they have taught me practices I will implement from day one of a new job.
So You Lost Your Job: Now What?
Some of the most talented, thoughtful, and effective people I have ever worked with were recently laid off.
Building Product Community — How to think about brand association
Thinking through how close you wish a community to be to your brand–an affinity or upstream community–is an exercise that will pay off in the long run.
My Approach to Pay Equity as a Manager
Over the years, I have had more impact on people’s job titles, responsibilities, and–importantly–their salaries.
3 tech resume tips to get seen by the hiring manager
I recently reviewed a handful of resumes for friends and mentees, and I saw the same pattern in each.
Sharing the tools that I use to stay productive
It’s a new year (allegedly*), and I’m finding new ways to share who I am and what kind of work I love to do.
A must-follow rule of resume building
I have helped a lot of people refine a pitch: a one-liner that helps them effectively message who they are and what they do well.
Add competencies to your resume
Job hunting as terrible. I keep writing about it in the hopes of your experience being a little less terrible based on some lessons I’ve learned.