Matt Allford
Lead Developer Advocate
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
Summary
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SeniorMatt Allford is a Lead Developer Advocate with over a decade in IT and more than 15 years of hands-on experience across systems administration, data center architecture, cloud, DevOps and automation. He translates deep technical knowledge into practical guidance as a prolific educator—authoring 20+ Pluralsight courses, labs and assessments, running a YouTube channel, and presenting at events from local meetups to VMworld. At Parallo he evolved from platform roles into Technical Success Manager, advising clients on cloud strategy and aligning infrastructure decisions with business outcomes. Now at Octopus Deploy he focuses on connecting developer experience with reliable deployment practices while continuing to create technical content. Based in Launceston, Tasmania, he combines practitioner instincts with storytelling skills, making complex infrastructure approachable for engineers moving into cloud-native practices. An interesting quirk: his career arc shows a steady shift from hands-on ops into developer advocacy, blending real-world ops credibility with polished educational outreach.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (38)
deploying10
script10
powercli10
vcenter10
vsphere9
command-line-interface9
core-module9
purestorage9
azure8
powershell8
cli8
vmware8
documentation-generator8
arm-templates8
azure-cli8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mattallford/AsBuiltReport.VMware.vSphere
Feb 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:41 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
mattallford/globomantics-arm-learning
Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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