Matt Cowger
Engineering Manager at Sigma
Lafayette, California, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Cowger is an engineering leader with 11+ years building and scaling backend infrastructure and high-trust teams that deliver predictable outcomes without heroics. He’s led core serving stacks and compliance efforts at Looker/Google—driving encryption and FedRAMP/FIPS readiness that unlocked multimillion-dollar revenue—then moved to Sigma to build Writeback and Data Apps primitives, growing teams rapidly while improving reliability and velocity. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and as a manager of 30+ engineers, he excels at distributed query execution, caching, clustering, and pragmatic roadmap execution across product and GTM. His early career in SaaS operations, sales, and marketing gives him uncommon empathy for adoption and go-to-market tradeoffs, which he weaves into technical strategy. Colleagues point to consistently high people-management scores and a knack for scaling leaders and systems in regulated, high-availability environments. Based in Lafayette, CA, he pairs rigorous operational discipline with a values-first culture that sustains long-term delivery.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
The Overlake SchoolBachelors Computer Science, Bachelors Computer Science at Bowdoin College
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Github Skills (200)
octoprint10
3d-printer10
pcf-dev10
printer10
firmware9
harbor9
command-line-tool9
television9
cloud-foundry9
tesla9
exchange9
freedesktop9
seccomp9
docker9
delicious9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
mcowger/vpnsplit2
Feb 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
mcowger/DahlDesignProperties
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
SimHub properties for iRacing, DahlDesignLED/DahlDesignController and more.
Contributions:25 commits, 58 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
simhubpropertiesiracing
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