Matt O.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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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• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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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• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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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• 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.

• 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.