Summary
Mat Allen is a seasoned solutions architect and strategic technologist with 14+ years designing and delivering enterprise open-source middleware and integration solutions, currently shaping global strategy at Red Hat. He combines deep hands-on JBoss/Red Hat middleware expertise with a background in financial services, having led middleware modernization and BRMS implementations for institutions like JPMorgan Chase and RBS. His career spans startups to large government and commercial programs, giving him a rare blend of product, services, and customer-success perspective across pre-sales, delivery, and portfolio management. Known for quickly mastering new technologies and mentoring teams, he has repeatedly bridged engineering, support, training and marketing to turn complex integrations into pragmatic, production-ready systems. Based in McKinney, Texas, Mat’s career arc—from building flagship startup software to steering Red Hat’s global solution strategy—reveals both entrepreneurial roots and enterprise-scale delivery chops.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of Hertfordshire