Matt Bolt
Principal Software Engineer at Apptio, an IBM Company
Greer, South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Bolt is a Principal Software Engineer with 15+ years building cross-platform game engines and cloud-native cost tooling, currently leading architecture at Apptio after co-founding the team behind Kubecost. He brings deep systems-level expertise across C/C++, Rust, Go and C#, and a proven track record of shipping performant graphics and engine features from Electrotank’s virtual worlds to Unity/XNA-based projects. At Stackwatch he extended cost-modeling for Kubernetes—adding network, GPU, memory and PV metrics—demonstrating a blend of backend engineering and pragmatic product thinking. Matt is passionate about concurrency and API design, and favors practical, test-driven refactors that improve observability and maintainability. Based in Greer, SC, he combines leadership in established studios and startups with a hands-on engineering style that surfaces subtle trade-offs between performance, portability and developer ergonomics.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Clemson UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Github Skills (8)
kubernetes10
go10
prometheus10
cost-optimization10
back-end-development10
promql10
kubernetes-pods10
testing9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
opencost/opencost
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
Cost monitoring for Kubernetes workloads and cloud costs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:388 reviews, 453 commits, 289 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Matt made several commits focused on enhancing the cost-model's capabilities. Their work involved adding the ability to calculate network costs by integrating network usage data. They modified the cost model to incorporate network costs and implemented support for a variety of new metrics, including memory, cpu, gpus and pvs. Additionally, they worked on restructuring parts of the code for better organization and added several unit tests for different cases.
gcpcost-optimizationfinopskubecostcost-allocation
mbolt35/Grits
Jul 2010 - Feb 2014
Contributions:54 commits in 3 years 7 months
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