Summary
Matt Beard is a seasoned engineering leader with over 20 years of hands-on experience building and scaling cloud-native platforms, identity systems, and high-impact product experiences used by millions. He has led cross-functional organizations at major companies including Salesforce, ClickUp, Calendly, and now Movable Ink, where he’s driving an AI-first personalization platform. Known for turning scrappy teams into reliable, high-velocity organizations, he’s delivered security-sensitive launches (MFA at Salesforce) and radically improved platform reliability and CI/CD cadence. A pragmatic technologist who still codes (Microsoft MVP and self-described “coding nerd”), he blends UX roots with deep platform expertise to solve both developer and customer-facing problems. Based in Greater Indianapolis, he pairs product intuition with operational rigor to reduce incident detection and mitigation times and to enable rapid, safe scaling.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Entrepreneurship Management Information Systems, B.S. Entrepreneurship Management Information Systems at Ball State University - Miller College of Business
M.S. Information and Communication Sciences, M.S. Information and Communication Sciences at Ball State University