Summary
Matt Gardner is a developer productivity leader with 13 years of engineering and developer relations experience, now focused on improving DevEx and platform tooling at Anthropic. He combines deep hands-on expertise in APIs, CI/CD, observability and platform engineering with a track record of building standards, governance and automation that help teams ship faster and more reliably. Previously he led Developer Relations and full‑stack engineering at 8x8, co‑founded products used in live events and real estate tech, and built high‑scale mobile video infrastructure that was acquired. Matt is as comfortable designing API governance and multi‑arch builds as he is evangelizing best practices, and he brings a maker’s mentality—blogging, podcasting and even freelance photography—to community building. Based in Annapolis, he pairs pragmatic platform engineering with developer advocacy to turn developer friction into measurable velocity gains.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Canterbury School
Information Technology, Information Technology at Rochester Institute of Technology
English