Matt Lauer
Engineering Manager at Particle
Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Lauer is an Engineering Manager with 11 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native platforms, currently leading engineering at Particle. He brings deep hands-on expertise in infrastructure automation, Kubernetes, CI/CD and cost optimization—having led a migration to containerized production, built unified GraphQL backends, and cut GKE costs nearly in half. Comfortable in high-pressure environments, he combines disciplined operational rigor (Ansible, Jenkins, automated testing) with pragmatic feature development and legacy system modernization. Based in Minnesota, he’s as comfortable optimizing node pools as designing APIs, and he’s known for turning operational pain points into reliable, automated platforms that accelerate developer productivity.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Arts at University of Minnesota-Morris
Github Skills (133)
photon10
command-line-interface10
isolation10
podman10
charts10
argon10
containerd10
helm10
cli10
kubernetes10
electron10
mp310
containerization10
flash10
docker10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
particle-iot/flash-device-action
May 2023 - Sep 2025
GitHub Action to flash application firmware to a device
Contributions:6 releases, 1 review, 9 PRs in 2 years 4 months
firmwareparticle
particle-iot/compile-action
Apr 2023 - May 2026
GitHub Action to compile application firmware
Contributions:7 releases, 3 reviews, 43 PRs in 3 years 1 month
firmwareparticle
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