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:
10 Job Titles and Why You Might Like Them (Or Won't)
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More on Mesos, Marketing, and Making a Name for Yourself
To my Operations Engineers; a few pieces of unsolicited advice:
The Art of Measuring The Wrong Things - Finding Balance in Metrics
“The minute we choose to measure something, we are essentially choosing to aspire to it.
3 Resources to Learn (More) about GitHub Commits
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What two communities taught me about my expectations for community
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On Explorers Villager and Towns Planners of Simon Wardley
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The Impact of Mistaken Sales Cycles — An Analysis of Yelp
“You shouldn’t use Yelp,” told a new friend of mine. “Their sales model is extortion that bullies local businesses.
My Latest Obsession: Admins becoming Developers
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The Oxymoron of Productivity
How I was more productive in the last 2 weeks without productivity tools than I ever was with them No matter your exact job role, you are a project manager.
Infrastructure as a Means, not an End
In philosophy, the term means to an end refers to any action (the means) carried out for the sole purpose of achieving something else (an end)