Matt Christiansen
Creative Director, Copywriter
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Christiansen is a creative director and copywriter with 16 years of experience crafting high-impact brand stories and leading multidisciplinary teams across regulated industries from insurance and pharma to energy and nonprofits. He’s driven measurable results for major brands like State Farm, ExxonMobil, Cisco and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—helping secure multi-million dollar wins and even contributing to $4 billion in renewed donations through a single summit video. Comfortable in fast-paced agency environments and startup operations alike, he combines strategic vision with hands-on execution—from overhauling 150+ page reports on tight deadlines to building marketing and compliance systems for a food startup. His background in pharma regulatory writing and practical DevOps contributions to projects like a Kubernetes Zookeeper operator reveal a blend of creative leadership and technical curiosity that helps teams navigate complexity and deliver work that converts.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Advertising and Applied Communications, Bachelor of Advertising and Applied Communications at University of Nebraska-LincolnPharma Regulations, Clinical Writing, Product Information, Referencing, Annotating, Compliance, Pharma Regulations, Clinical Writing, Product Information, Referencing, Annotating, Compliance at Intouch Copy SchoolProject Management, IA/UX, Digital Strategy, Project Management, IA/UX, Digital Strategy at School of Visual Arts
Github Skills (11)
k8s-operator10
kubernetes10
go10
zookeeper10
operator-sdk10
kubernetes-pods10
operator10
dockers9
cicd9
docker9
testing8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pravega/zookeeper-operator
Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
Kubernetes Operator for Zookeeper
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 8 days
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on enhancing the Zookeeper operator's operational aspects. Their contributions involved updating image pull secrets for service accounts, improving unit tests, and integrating logging for service account updates. Furthermore, they upgraded the Zookeeper version and implemented changes to prevent status updates from triggering unnecessary reconcile loops, thereby improving the efficiency and stability of the operator.
zookeeperoperatork8skuberneteskubernetes-operator
nikore/opentsdb-contrib
Dec 2012 - Sep 2013
Contributions:18 commits in 9 months
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