Hey 👋. 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:

Cloud, DevOps, and Other Fads Sysadmins Don't Need to Care About (Yet)

Talk track from my keynote presented at VTUG Summer Slam 2013