Matt Johnson
Principal Technologist, EMEA at MongoDB
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Johnson is a Principal Technologist based in Stevenage with 12 years of experience at the intersection of cloud architecture, security, developer experience, and AI enablement. He has guided technical strategy and developer adoption across vendors and startups, most recently holding Field CTO and developer relations leadership roles at Palo Alto Networks, Bridgecrew and Prowler before joining MongoDB EMEA. Matt combines hands-on platform engineering—contributions to open-source projects like Checkov and the Mantl deployment platform—with pragmatic security hardening and infrastructure automation expertise. His background spans cloud-native PaaS, multi-datacenter operations and embedded IoT work, reflecting a rare full-stack operational-to-embedded perspective. Colleagues rely on him for turning research and PoCs into production-ready architectures and clear developer-facing documentation. He also quietly improves developer onboarding and security posture through documentation and build-tool fixes that prevent real-world misconfigurations.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
First Class BSc with Honours Computer Science / Computer Internetworking University of Salford, First Class BSc with Honours Computer Science / Computer Internetworking University of Salford at The University of Salford
Github Skills (22)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
bridgecrewio/checkov
Aug 2020 - Dec 2022
Prevent cloud misconfigurations and find vulnerabilities during build-time in infrastructure as code, container images and open source packages with Checkov by Bridgecrew.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 25 reviews, 124 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the project by modifying configuration files and code related to the Checkov tool's functionality. These modifications include changes to versioning and build scripts, along with fixes to existing security checks. Additionally, the user enhanced the documentation, specifically adding information about scanning third-party Terraform modules. The user also addressed and resolved issues related to security vulnerabilities.
gcppolicy-as-codecomplianceaws-securityaws
mantl/mantl
Apr 2015 - Nov 2016
Mantl is a modern platform for rapidly deploying globally distributed services
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:15 commits, 5 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Matt contributed primarily to improving the documentation for the Mantl platform, particularly around AWS setup and security. They updated the AWS getting started guide to include current best practices for AWS credentials, corrected documentation errors, and added information about security setup requirements. Their contributions included edits to the terraform and documentation, as well as providing fixes that directly impacted infrastructure setup procedures.
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