Matt Baldwin
Ambassador at Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Baldwin is a cloud-native leader and founder with 12+ years building distributed systems, Kubernetes platforms, and AI infrastructure at the intersection of 3D simulation, supercomputing, and cloud. He founded StackPointCloud, pioneering day-one/day-two Kubernetes management and exited to NetApp, then led Cloud Native engineering and AI infrastructure initiatives at NetApp and NVIDIA. A CNCF Ambassador who runs one of the largest global Cloud Native communities, he combines technical depth—Python contributions to projects like Apache Libcloud’s Azure driver—with strong ecosystem-building and public speaking at KubeCon and DockerCon. Based in Seattle, he now advises and shapes early ventures as an EIR with a focus on AI infrastructure. Uncommonly for a technologist, he holds a BA in English, reflecting a knack for clear communication across technical and business audiences.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BA, English, BA, English at University of Idaho
Github Skills (11)
azure10
microsoft-azure10
cloud-computing10
python10
apache9
apidoc9
sdk9
virtualization9
api9
libcloud9
infrastructure-management8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
apache/libcloud
Apr 2014 - Aug 2014
Apache Libcloud is a Python library that hides differences between different cloud provider APIs and allows you to manage different cloud resources through a unified and easy-to-use API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 3 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Matt contributed extensively to the Azure compute driver within the Apache Libcloud library. Their primary focus was to add and refactor support for Microsoft Azure, specifically enabling the creation, management, and destruction of virtual machines and volumes. The contributions involved integrating code from the Azure SDK for Python, refactoring existing code, and eliminating external library dependencies, demonstrating a strong understanding of cloud infrastructure and Python development. The user also refactored the destroy and create node functions.
libcloudpythoncloudapache
StackPointCloud/libcloud
Aug 2014 - Sep 2014
Apache Libcloud is a Python library which hides differences between different cloud provider APIs and allows you to manage different cloud resources through a unified and easy to use API
Contributions:36 commits in 14 days
libcloudpython
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