MattĀ Martz
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Ansible by Red Hat
San Antonio, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Martz is a Senior Principal Software Engineer and technical team lead with 17 years of experience building and scaling automation and cloud tooling from San Antonio. He drives core engineering for Ansible at Red Hat, contributing high-impact backend and plugin work (including widely used Slack callbacks and Windows PowerShell modules) that bridge DevOps and platform engineering. Previously at Rackspace he worked on cloud SDKs and autoscaling features, and his open-source contributions include meaningful backend optimizations to popular projects like speedtest-cli. Known for practical, test-focused refactors and cross-platform automation, he combines systems-level Linux expertise with cloud-native development. He prefers remote roles and does not consider relocation, reflecting a strong commitment to deep, distributed-team leadership. An astrophysics-trained problem solver, he brings curiosity and a data-driven mindset to complex infrastructure challenges.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Networking Technology, Associate's degree, Networking Technology at Hagerstown Community CollegeThe University of Maryland, College Park
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Github contributions (5)
sivel/speedtest-cli
Sep 2012 - Jul 2021
Command line interface for testing internet bandwidth using speedtest.net
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 364 commits, 128 PRs in 8 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the `speedtest-cli` project, specifically focusing on implementing and improving the core logic for internet bandwidth testing. This included adding support for setup.py files and addressing existing issues by modifying and improving the codebase. Further contributions focused on optimizing the performance of the application, including improvements to server selection and data handling. They also integrated support for the --bytes argument.
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ansible/ansible
Aug 2014 - Jan 2023
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:97 releases, 688 reviews, 1227 commits in 8 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the Ansible core project by implementing and enhancing callback plugins. They added a new Slack callback plugin to send status updates during playbook execution. The user also worked on incorporating features such as applying options to included tasks and improvements in testing practices. They demonstrated the ability to work on both the core codebase and on plugin functionalities.
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