Summary
Matt Dietz is a Staff Software Developer with 13 years of experience building high-scale, production-critical systems across cloud, networking, and real-time event domains. Based in San Antonio, he currently leads reputation and abuse engineering at Sinch Mailgun, creating a domain-specific rules engine that processes over a billion events per day and applying ML and LLM fine-tuning for real-time fraud and spam detection. His background includes architecting bare-metal orchestration at Cisco and helping found Rackspace’s OpenStack Nova and Neutron efforts, where he delivered high-performance networking plugins and large-scale cloud services. A hands-on technical leader and mentor, he’s migrated mission-critical Kafka pipelines to more modern platforms and has a track record of turning complex distributed requirements into pragmatic, reliable systems. Notably, he combines deep systems-level engineering with practical applied ML, bringing both low-level infrastructure expertise and data-driven automation to production environments.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science Computer Science, Bachelors of Science Computer Science at Binghamton University