Matt Farina
Head Of Portfolio Architecture & Community at SUSE
Highland, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Farina is a seasoned cloud-native architect and engineer with 17 years of experience designing and shipping web and cloud applications, now leading portfolio architecture and community at SUSE. He combines hands-on contributions to high-profile open source projects—maintaining Helm, Rancher Desktop, and work on semantic versioning and Go utilities—with strategic leadership across product architecture, M&A, and community engagement. A published author and speaker (author of Go in Practice), Matt is a frequent contributor to Kubernetes, Helm, and other CNCF projects and has co-founded SIG Apps to bridge app development and operations. He brings deep expertise in Go, Kubernetes, CI/CD and package management, and an unusual mix of nonprofit technology leadership through Enjoy Creativity and a long history of developer tooling and ecosystem stewardship.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering at Michigan State University
English
Github Skills (70)
dependency-management10
website-development10
package-management10
go-language10
testing10
command-line-interface10
bash10
rancher10
circleci10
constraint10
comparer10
javascript10
charts10
python-templates10
dockers10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
Masterminds/semver
Oct 2015 - Nov 2022
Work with Semantic Versions in Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 16 reviews, 205 commits in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the `masterminds/semver` repository, which focuses on semantic versioning in Go. Their work involved implementing new functionality, specifically adding methods for comparison and validation. They also introduced support for handling ranges, carets, and tildes in version constraints. These changes enhanced the library's features related to version comparisons.
golangcaretsemantic-versionstildesemver
Masterminds/sprig
Dec 2015 - Nov 2022
Useful template functions for Go templates.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 19 reviews, 161 commits in 7 years
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the `sprig` project by enhancing the functionality of template functions for Go templates. They refactored and extended list manipulation functions to handle various slice types, improving compatibility. Further contributions included adding new date and time-related functions, such as epoch conversion and timezone handling. Moreover, the user was responsible for updating dependencies, managing module versions, and integrating error handling into existing functions.
golangtemplate-functionstemplatetemplatesgo
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