Matt O'Donnell

Experience

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  RepCard

  Chief Technology Officer

  Sep 2025 - Present

  • As CTO, set technical strategy and roadmap for a digital business‑card and lead‑management platform.
  • Owned platform architecture and scaling to support customer growth and analytics/lead‑tracking features.
  • Led engineering hiring, mentored teams, and aligned product and go‑to‑market needs with technical delivery.
  • Implemented integrations and platform analytics to improve lead capture, tracking, and conversion workflows.
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  RepCard

  Fractional Chief Technology Officer (via InStride Technologies)

  Sep 2025 - May 2026

  • Engaged via my consulting firm InStride Technologies to lead AWS cost optimization and platform modernization.
  • Cut projected monthly AWS spend 78% ($20K → ~$4.5K) via Graviton migration, instance right-sizing from utilization analysis, and improved process management.
  • Led infrastructure modernization off end-of-life stack: PHP → 8.4, Laravel 8 → 12 in 3 weeks, plus dependency upgrades that unblocked subsequent optimization work.
  • Diagnosed and remediated a database connection explosion driving runaway RDS cost.
  • Rolled out agentic coding tooling (Amp Code) across engineering and deployed Nightwatch for monitoring and observability.
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  Blue Mantis

  Director of Cloud Architecture

  Sep 2021 - Sep 2025

  • Senior individual contributor operating across three functions: practice innovation, top-tier client delivery, and emerging-tech R&D.
  • Practice Innovation
  • Designed and incubated four managed service practices; GitMantis (managed GitOps deployments) graduated incubation and was handed to sales as a GA offering.
  • Presented GitMantis and broader GitOps adoption patterns at multiple internal conferences and an AWS Meetup.
  • Enterprise Delivery (selected engagements)
  • Major US payment processor: Designed and delivered a 100% private AKS environment with Pulumi (TypeScript) IaC, Azure DevOps build-and-promote pipeline pushing through environment-specific ACRs, ArgoCD pulling per-environment for sync — preserving container immutability from dev → prod.
  • MLB franchise: Led pen test remediation and false-positive rebuttal; built a Prometheus/Grafana observability platform spanning minor league stadium networks; converted legacy IP-camera streaming protocols to web-native dashboards.
  • Major book publisher: Architected and ran managed Drupal environment — monitoring, patching, and incident response.
  • R&D — Agentic Coding Adoption
  • Led the firm's evaluation of agentic coding frameworks (BMAD, Agent OS, GitHub Spec-Kit) for team-scale adoption: cost governance, multi-agent coordination patterns, and enterprise-safe rollout playbooks for client engagements.
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  Zaloni

  Director of Cloud Ops

  Nov 2020 - Sep 2021

  • Led a team of four focused on developer experience (DevEx) and platform engineering for Zaloni's SaaS data management product.
  • Re-architected the product's control plane deployment on Kubernetes and built a new CI/CD platform using Docker and ArgoCD.
  • Mentored the team in Go and built Kubernetes learning paths adopted by the broader engineering org.
  • Partnered with IT to drive SOC 2 certification work.
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  Fruit Street

  Principal Platform Engineer

  Jun 2020 - Nov 2020

  • Built EKS clusters and supporting AWS infrastructure with Terraform, plus a GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline for automated Kubernetes deployments.
  • Drove SOC 2 Type I audit prep, defined on-call processes, and integrated Snyk for code and container scanning.

• Pinpoint

  Director of IT Operations

  Jun 2019 - Mar 2020

  • Migrated 8 microservices from AWS ECS to AWS EKS and built a three-tier Codefresh deployment pipeline that became the team's production deployment path.
  • Tier 1 — config and secrets pipeline managing all microservice configuration in Kubernetes secrets and ConfigMaps across clusters.
  • Tier 2 — infrastructure modification pipeline for cluster and AWS changes.
  • Tier 3 — per-service deployment pipeline with Slack-gated approval/rejection workflow for production releases.
  • Built the operations team and defined on-call processes and tooling from scratch.
  • Drove SOC 2 Type I audit prep with the VP of Operations; integrated and managed security tooling across AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure.
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  NetFoundry

  Principal Cloud Engineer

  Sep 2018 - Jun 2019

  • Refactored Terraform from a monolithic configuration into micro-states and streamlined AWS ECS deployments via Terraform and Jenkins.
  • Designed the migration plan from ECS to Kubernetes and the company's CI/CD architecture; achieved CIS AWS Benchmark compliance.
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  Veracode

  Principal DevOps Engineer

  Feb 2014 - Sep 2018

  • Cut monthly AWS spend from $90K to $50K within the first three months, then scaled the footprint from 12 to 50+ AWS accounts as cloud adoption accelerated across the company.
  • Re-architected the mobile product to be AWS-native and built proofs-of-concept for Kubernetes, Vault, and Consul that informed the company's platform direction.
  • Founded a company-wide AWS Guild to spread cloud best practices and shift the engineering org toward DevOps.
  • Designed the Reserved Instance purchasing strategy and built tooling to enforce cloud governance, audit IAM across all accounts, and automate instance schedules tied to developer working hours.
  • Established multiple AWS DirectConnects for hybrid cloud connectivity and managed VPC IP allocation across peered and DirectConnect-routed networks.
  • Performed FedRAMP and SOC 2 audits; defined cloud governance standards and built the tooling to enforce them.
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  WebKite

  Senior Cloud Engineer

  Oct 2012 - Feb 2014

  WebKite is an advertising technology company located in Pittsburgh, PA. We build dynamic, inventory-based advertising software that builds the most specific and efficient PPC, display, and remarketing campaigns on the web.

  • Planned and executed migration from EngineYard to AWS, including account/VPC design and service mapping.
  • Designed the target cloud architecture to improve reliability and operational efficiency.
  • Replaced Chef with Ansible for configuration management to standardize and speed deployments.
  • Implemented centralized logging and analytics using the ELK stack for improved observability and incident response.
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  Hinge

  Co-Founder and CTO

  Feb 2012 - Oct 2012

  Hinge is built on the belief that anyone looking for love should be able to find it. It’s also built on an acclaimed Nobel-Prize-winning algorithm, so we can succeed in getting you out on promising dates, not keeping you on the app.

  • Co‑founded the Hinge dating app and defined its technical vision and early product architecture.
  • Designed a hybrid Google App Engine / AWS architecture to balance scalability and cost.
  • Selected and operated graph and distributed datastores (Neo4j, Riak) with Redis caching to support social queries.
  • Replaced slow nightly batch workflows with on‑demand 300ms query paths to improve latency for production traffic.

• AdKeeper Inc.

  Director of Ops/SysEng (promoted twice from Senior SWE → Ops Team Lead)

  Dec 2011 - Feb 2012

  AdKeeper Inc. is a company.

  • Promoted twice in 16 months from Senior SWE → Ops Team Lead → Director of Ops/SysEng.
  • Led migration from physical datacenters to AWS, including planning, cutover, and operational runbooks.
  • Architected an OpenStack-based virtualization platform to abstract infrastructure for engineering teams.
  • Built self-service deployment tooling that enabled product teams to push to production without ops bottlenecks.

• AdKeeper Inc.

  Director of Ops/SysEng

  Dec 2011 - Feb 2012

  • Migrating all of our physical datacenter infrastructure over to AWS.
  • Mentoring my team as they become stronger python developers.
  • Building tools to manage our AWS infrastructure and enable a lot of self service features to the developing teams.
  • Building deployment tool that integrates with our continuous integration testing tools and version control systems to allow development teams to deploy their own code to production.

• AdKeeper Inc.

  Ops Team Lead

  Jun 2011 - Dec 2011

  • Created migration plan to move out of the datacenter into AWS.
  • Heading up the effort to rebuild our datacenter.
  • Designing and developing a new deployment tool for our software stack.
  • Designing and implementing a new virtualization platform utilizing openstack.

• AdKeeper Inc.

  Senior Software Engineer

  Oct 2010 - Jun 2011

  • Core developer building REST infrastructure for the frontend site written in PHP.
  • Developed a python version of rake to make managing our python apps much easier.
  • Built an auto-documentation system for our python web services, so the frontend guys can see the current state of the API.
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  Comcast

  Sr Network Engineer

  Feb 2009 - Oct 2010

  Imagine the PossiBITLYties 🧡 with Bitly! We are a platform dedicated to being a catalyst for connections and ensuring seamless connectivity. For over a decade, Bitly has been the point of connection for sharers of digital information and their audiences.

  • Member of tools group building internal web platforms using Ruby frameworks (Rails, Merb, Sinatra).
  • Designed and helped implement server deployment management tooling to standardize releases across teams.
  • Built a workflow application to accelerate datacenter provisioning and reduce manual provisioning time.
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  Comcast Cable

  Contractor

  Oct 2008 - Feb 2009

  • Built web services around legacy data sources to surface internal data via modern RESTful endpoints.
  • Rapidly prototyped multiple implementation options using Perl, Ruby, Python, and Java to validate architecture choices.
  • Delivered integration patterns and prototypes that informed longer‑term platform decisions.
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  Netcordia, Inc.

  Software Engineer

  Mar 2008 - Sep 2008

  • Part of the development team that worked on NetMRI.
  • Integrated a ruby on rails environment into the product.
  • Trained the other engineers on ruby and rails.
  • Lead for the implementation of ExtJS for the products frontend.

• FirstString

  Manager, Platform and System Architect

  Jun 2007 - Jul 2010

  FirstString is a company.

  • Owned platform and system architecture as the company scaled, evolving designs to meet growing traffic and feature needs.
  • Managed and mentored development teams, balancing hands‑on architecture work with people leadership.
  • Introduced practices and standards to improve reliability, deployment cadence, and maintainability.
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  ARIN

  Software Engineer

  Aug 2004 - Mar 2008

  • Developed and maintain an internal web framework to speed up web development.
  • Maintain an excellent awareness of 'state of the art' web technologies.
  • Developed and maintain web applications for the Financial Service Department (FSD).
  • Designed and developed new projects for ARIN.
  • Developed and maintain the credit card system for ARIN’s external site.
  • Ported legacy scripts to mod_perl2/apache2.
  • Support the legacy web application, Bill Tracking System (BTS).
  • Helped with ad hoc requests sent to our Engineering Department.
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  UUNET

  Senior Software Developer

  Jan 2000 - Aug 2004

  Discover Verizon's business solutions, including high-speed internet, phone services and 5G devices. Get customizable plans when you sign up for a Verizon business account today!

  • Team lead for ITEMS, an internal global application supporting 2,000+ users.
  • Defined and implemented SOAP APIs and flat-file integrations between legacy MCI/WorldCom systems and ITEMS.
  • Led cross-team integrations and provided Perl training as the corporate Perl instructor to raise internal development capability.

• Peregrine Hardware, Inc

  Chief Technical Consultant

  Dec 1995 - Feb 2000

  • This was a small company, only 3 people when I started. My duties involved everything from building computers/servers, off-site client support, to being a developer on a site we eventually sold to Movie Gallery. The last 2 years were pretty much dedicated to working on moviegallery.com. I filled in for the owner when he was out of the office, I did everything but sign checks.
  • Here are some specific duties:
  • Core developer of moviegallery.com, Movie Gallery’s online store.
  • Developed web applications utilizing mod_Perl, JavaScript and MySQL.
  • Developed web sites utilizing mod_Perl, JavaScript and MySQL.
  • Developed internal web based messaging system utilizing Perl, HTML and MySQL.