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.
12 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)
image-generation10
openapi10
webui10
api10
llmops10
object-detection10
text-generation10
llama10
github-copilot10
libp2p10
azure-openai10
hardware10
llm10
python10
codex10
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
mcowger/plexus
Dec 2025 - Jul 2026
Unified API gateway for multiple AI providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, etc.). Switch models and providers without changing client code. Features OAuth authentication, quota tracking, embeddings, transcriptions, and OpenAI-compatible endpoints.
Contributions:16 reviews, 45 PRs, 625 pushes in 6 months
aianthropicapi-gatewayauthenticationoauth
dotnext/vascodegama
Feb 2015 - Oct 2015
Project Vasco da Gama - a demonstration of CloudFoundry, Redis and ViPR Object
Contributions:1 release, 54 commits, 3 PRs in 7 months
cloud-foundryredis
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