Matt Groot
Software Engineer at Nominal
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Groot is a Software Engineer based in Austin with a decade of experience building full-stack and DevOps solutions, now focused on cloud automation and continuous delivery. He has held senior and principal roles at companies like Indeed and OwnLocal, where he architected serverless APIs, streamlined CI/CD, and modernized legacy systems with container orchestration. An active contributor to the prominent Argo CD project, Matt improved progressive rollouts, sync stability, and operator behavior—work that directly strengthens Kubernetes continuous deployment reliability. He combines hands-on back-end engineering with production-focused DevOps practices, prioritizing observability, automation, and test coverage. Known for digging into race conditions and operational edge cases, he brings pragmatic engineering judgment to complex distributed systems.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
English
Github Skills (11)
continuous-deployment10
gitops10
argocd10
kubernetes10
go10
devops10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
jsonnet5
helm5
kustomize5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
argoproj/argo-cd
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Declarative Continuous Deployment for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:28 reviews, 2 commits, 6 PRs in 3 days
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on enhancing the ApplicationSet controller within the Argo CD project. Their contributions included implementing progressive rollout strategies, addressing race conditions in sync detection, and improving the handling of application statuses during progressive sync operations. Furthermore, the user made code changes to improve logging, documentation, and the behavior of the 'NotIn' operator within the rolling update strategy. These modifications demonstrate a focus on improving the stability and functionality of the continuous deployment process.
cdcontinuous-deploymentdokkupipelinehelm
wmgroot/argo-cd
Jul 2022 - Jun 2023
Declarative continuous deployment for Kubernetes.
Contributions:6 PRs, 52 pushes, 10 branches in 11 months
continuous-deploymentkubernetes-deploymentdevopsdeploymentcontinuous
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