Matt Colman
CTO For EMEA CyberDefend CoE at IBM
Basingstoke and Deane, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Colman is a seasoned cybersecurity and cloud-native leader with eight years focused on securing containers, Kubernetes, and hybrid cloud platforms, now serving as CTO for EMEA CyberDefend at IBM. He progressed through hands-on infrastructure, platform and security architect roles, combining deep network and systems experience with strategic DevSecOps and solution delivery across public sector and enterprise accounts. Known for translating emerging tech into practical client solutions, he has led container security capability, cloud platform transformation and guild-driven skills alignment across IBM clusters. His background spans low-level infrastructure (AIX, storage, network appliances) to modern container orchestration, giving him rare end-to-end visibility of systems and risk. Based in Basingstoke, he pairs a First Class BSc in Information Systems with a track record of turning complex compliance and security requirements into deployable architectures. A pragmatic technologist, he often bridges the gap between legacy systems and cloud-native security practices.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Rickmansworth SchoolFirst Class BSc (Hons), Information Systems and Multimedia Computing, First Class, First Class BSc (Hons), Information Systems and Multimedia Computing, First Class at University of the West of England
English
Github Skills (143)
selenium-server10
security10
site-reliability-engineering10
slim10
k8s10
scanner10
catalog10
webdriver10
ai10
glibc10
pipeline10
golang10
credentials10
chaos-engineering10
selenium-grid10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ibm-garage-ref-storefront/storefront-tekton
Jul 2021 - Oct 2022
Spinning up IBM Blue Compute and using Tekton pipelines
Contributions:2 reviews, 180 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 3 months
tekton-pipelines
mtcolman/chains
Dec 2021 - Nov 2022
Supply Chain Security in Tekton Pipelines
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
tektonsecuritysupply-chainchainkubernetes
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