Matt Colton
Staff Solutions Engineer at Coder
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Colton is a seasoned software leader with 13 years of experience who currently serves as Staff Solutions Engineer at Coder and runs a niche SaaS business, Stringjob, for racquet stringing and customer management. He has a long history of technical leadership across enterprise and startup environments, including a decade-plus tenure as IBM Principal Cloud Technical Specialist for the Americas and earlier CTO and VP-level roles. Matt blends hands-on development roots from Rackspace and other engineering roles with strategic cloud and solutions expertise, focusing on delivering practical, scalable systems. His career shows a pattern of building customer-facing products and developer-facing cloud solutions, bridging product, sales engineering, and technical strategy. Based in San Antonio, he pairs entrepreneurial instincts with enterprise cloud credentials, often translating complex technical capabilities into usable business value. An owner-operator mindset is a throughline—he still runs and evolves his own commercial software product while advising and building at scale.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
University of Texas at San AntonioTyler Junior College
Github Skills (10)
ansible10
python9
ssh9
automation9
network-configuration7
kubernetes6
satellite5
ibm-cloud3
docker3
devops1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mcltn/softlayer-scripts
Aug 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:64 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
Cloud-Schematics/fs2020
Dec 2019 - Mar 2020
Demo lab for Fast Start 2020 conference
Contributions:33 commits, 3 PRs, 20 pushes in 3 months
kuberneteslab
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