About Matt

Quick Bio #

Matt is a Senior Director at SUSE, where, as the Head of Portfolio Architecture and Community, he leads a team of distinguished engineers working on everything from portfolio architecture to multi-product strategy. He is a maintainer of Helm and Artifact Hub, has served on the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee, and has co-chaired Kubernetes SIG Apps. Matt has written three books, including Learning Helm and Go in Practice, has keynoted at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, and has been developing software for many years.

More Detail #

As an open source developer Matt has contributed to and has sometimes been in a leadership role for Kubernetes, Helm, OpenStack, Rancher Desktop, Hypper, Drupal, Glide, PHP HTML5 Parser, a Go SemVer library, and many other projects.

To share the lessons learned solving problems and building products, Matt writes (such as the books Learning Helm and Go in Practice), blogs, speaks at conferences, and has even co-organized several conferences.

Fostering technology growth, Matt sits on the board to Enjoy Creativity, a non-profit that focuses on technology for churches and ministries, and has previously mentored startups through Techstars.

Prior to his current work, Matt worked at Samsung SDS focusing on cloud native technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (formerly Hewlett-Packard) focusing on advanced technologies and cloud computing, worked at Palantir.net focusing on website and web application development, and founded podcasts such as the Geeks & God Podcast and Super Average Podcast.

Matt has a degree in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University and spent several years working for General Dynamics Land Systems as an electrical engineer working on testability, prognostics, diagnostics, and other elements of vehicles.

Matt is happily married to a brilliant woman (she chose him after all) and has amazing kids (most of the time).