Matt Bailey
Director, Linkerd Engineering at Buoyant
Liberty Lake, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Bailey is a results-driven Director of Engineering with nearly two decades of experience leading global teams to deliver secure, cloud-native and SaaS platforms at scale. He has repeatedly modernized complex systems—from architecting gRPC/Go platform services and enterprise RFC frameworks at Bethesda to improving fleet-wide resilience for millions of GKE clusters at Google—while driving cost optimization, SRE practices, and developer ergonomics. Known for aligning technical vision with business outcomes, he builds high-performing, accountable teams and operationalizes reliable delivery through automation and clear decision frameworks. Based in Liberty Lake, WA, Matt blends deep systems and cloud expertise with a humanities-informed perspective from anthropology/ICT studies, which helps him translate technical complexity into practical, people-centered solutions.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MAS Information and Communication Technology, MAS Information and Communication Technology at University of DenverBA Anthropology, BA Anthropology at Washington State UniversityMaster of Arts (MA) (incomplete) Archaeology, Master of Arts (MA) (incomplete) Archaeology at Washington State University Graduate School
Github Skills (200)
testing10
websocket10
html-to-text10
build-automation10
continuous-delivery10
api10
git10
continuous-integration10
pretty-print10
go10
vscode10
docker10
converter10
ide10
build-pipelines10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
mattbailey/actions-hugo
Aug 2019 - Nov 2022
Hugo build & deploy github action.
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 14 commits in 3 years 3 months
hugo
mattbailey/config
Jan 2015 - Jul 2021
Contributions:100 pushes, 2 issues in 6 years 7 months
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