Matt Momont is a senior technology leader and cloud architect with 12+ years building industrial-grade, data-driven systems for large enterprises, currently serving as Senior Vice President at PIMCO. He spent a decade at GE Digital shaping Predix, the Industrial Internet platform that powers analytics for jet engines, trains, wind farms and MRI machines, bringing a full-stack engineer’s attention to clean code and elegant solutions. Matt blends hands-on engineering—contributing testing and instrumentation to notable open-source projects like zipkin-js—with strategic architecture and product leadership across cloud, observability, and operational analytics. He holds an MS from UIUC and a BS from Notre Dame, and applies discipline from Ironman racing to complex technical problem-solving. Outside work he accompanies musicals on piano and authors a comic strip, signaling a creative streak that complements his systems thinking.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Computer Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Masters of Computer Science (M.S.) Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) cum laude Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) cum laude Computer Science Engineering at University of Notre Dame
Contributions:6 commits, 7 PRs, 14 comments in 22 days
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the testing and instrumentation aspects of the `zipkin-js` library. They implemented and tested integrations with `express-http-proxy` and the `request` library, ensuring proper tracing of HTTP requests and responses. Furthermore, the user addressed URL formatting issues and added error handling to improve the robustness of the instrumentation. These contributions focused on adding comprehensive integration tests and improving the reliability of the library.
Contributions:16 commits, 8 PRs, 26 pushes in 5 months
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