Hey 👋. I’m Matt.
I’m a Director of Product Management and product & growth leader focused on cloud platform engineering, internal developer platforms, observability, and experimentation-driven growth. 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.
How I can help: Leading product teams to scale AI-augmented developer experiences, design internal platform products, and improve how organizations build, ship, and operate software. Currently open to Director/Principal/Head roles in product, growth, and platform engineering.
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.
Growth & Experimentation for DevTools — Designing funnels, instrumentation, and A/B testing programs for developer tools and internal platforms; turning product usage and community signals into roadmap and go-to-market decisions.
Product domains I love
Cloud Platform Engineering & Internal Developer Platforms — 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.
Observability & Incident Management Products — Building telemetry and incident workflows as products, not just toolchains, to reduce MTTR and major incidents while giving SREs and executives the right signals.
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. I treat communities as part of the product surface, not a separate marketing channel.
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.
Recent favorites
A few pieces that reflect how I think about platforms, growth, and product management:
When Platform Products Fail – About Maps, Domains, Topologies — Why internal platforms fail and how Wardley Maps, Domain-Driven Design, and Team Topologies help align them.
Platforms as Internal Products — On treating internal platforms as products that reduce cognitive load for stream-aligned teams.
Team Topologies: Map of Content — The exploration of Team Topologies and how I apply it to different domains.
Falling in Love with AI Coding Agents — Reflections on generative AI and how it changes developer workflows.
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.
Sharing the Job Hunting Pipeline Blueprint
There is nothing like some unexpected job hunting to send a reasonably confident person into a spiral of panic.
Job hunting tips for nonlinear careers
I originally wrote this post while job hunting in 2018. I knew I needed a change from the work I was doing, and I developed a tool (read: spreadsheet) that helped reinforce a few …
Mac error on pip install ends up being clang and xcode
I have been having intermittent installation errors with Python packages on my Mac.
An (even more) practical guide to open source contribution
I had the pleasure of speaking at DevOps Minneapolis to a great group of people.
Creating a Contributor Experience for Humans
In preparation for the wonderful Open Source 101, I wanted to challenge my assumptions on what makes a great contributor experience by asking.
Community Metrics: Share of Voice
One of the dark arts of measurement This is part three on a series exploring metrics that can position a Community program as a successful business investment.
Community Metrics: What’s the ROI of Stickers?
To start this series on metrics off right, an aside is needed.
The Value of Community Metrics
What does it look like for Community to be a quantifiable value to a company?