Summary
Matt Cordial is a senior consultant and full‑stack software engineer with 15 years building resilient web applications, search-driven platforms, and automation-first delivery pipelines. He specializes in migrating and operationalizing large applications to AWS and Kubernetes, having led lift-and-shift efforts, IaC standards, and CI/CD resiliency at enterprises like Experian and ASU. Comfortable across the stack, he combines backend development (Python, Java), search technologies (Lucene/Solr, Elasticsearch), and systems automation (Terraform, Ansible, Vault) to keep development environments healthy and scalable. He has a track record of pragmatic tooling—authoring a Go CLI to simplify multi-cluster Kubernetes access—and operational playbooks that reduce toil (Kafka/RDS/Jenkins housekeeping). Based in Tempe, AZ, he brings academic training in library and information science to bear on digital repositories and metadata-rich systems, blending preservation-minded design with modern SRE practices.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Management Information Systems, BS, Management Information Systems at Wright State University
MS, Library and Information Science, MS, Library and Information Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign