Summary
Matthew Gilham is a seasoned software founder and architect with over a decade of experience delivering scalable cloud-native and data-intensive systems. As founder of Continuous Cloud, Inc. (2023–present), he is building a PaaS with a focus on rapid, low-risk delivery and an imminent product launch. At Salesforce, he led the Spark-as-a-service team, scaling across thousands of nodes, owning Kubernetes clusters on bare metal and in the cloud, and establishing SLAs and 24/7 incident response while aligning with open-source efforts. His earlier roles span Globys, VeriSign, and multiple startups where he architected big data pipelines, OLAP, real-time analytics, and distributed systems using Java/Scala, Hadoop ecosystem, Storm, Kafka, and AWS. An inventive founder and engineer, he prototyped a novel database-management model at Irkennet LLC, underscoring a penchant for challenging traditional paradigms. Based in Bellevue, WA, he consistently ships high-quality software at speed, balancing entrepreneurship with hands-on delivery and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Oregon State University