Matt Conway is a Chief Architect and seasoned technology leader with 14 years of experience building cloud-native systems, developer tooling, and scalable deployment platforms. He founded CloudTruth to solve real-world configuration and secrets challenges, demonstrating measurable impact like faster deploy velocity and full observability of secrets. His background spans CTO and VP roles at startups and scale-ups, including leading engineering at Backupify through acquisition and driving cloud services at Datto. A hands-on DevOps contributor, he has upstream commits to deployment tooling (notably enhancing rubber/rubber with S3 backups, Zookeeper and Jenkins templates) that reflect a focus on reliable, automated ops. Based in Weymouth, MA, he blends deep systems engineering (MIT S.B. in Computer Science) with product-first entrepreneurship. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he specializes in turning operational complexity into simple, auditable developer workflows.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A capistrano/rails plugin that makes it easy to deploy/manage/scale to various service providers, including EC2, DigitalOcean, vSphere, and bare metal servers.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:220 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Matt's commits primarily focus on enhancing and maintaining the deployment and management infrastructure of the `rubber/rubber` repository. They introduced support for cloud storage integration, specifically for S3, and implemented features such as backup on save functionality. The commits also included improvements to the deployment scripts and configurations, including support for a Zookeeper template and setting up of the Jenkins template. Furthermore, code changes relating to more efficient deploys and fix cleanup were provided.
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