Matt Ray
Technical Account Manager at Wiz
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Ray is a Technical Account Manager and open source-savvy engineering leader with 15 years’ experience helping enterprises deploy, integrate, and operate cloud-native and infrastructure software. Based in Sydney, he combines hands-on development (Go, Ruby, TypeScript/React) and DevOps expertise across Kubernetes, Linux, and multi-cloud environments with customer-facing roles in technical account management, developer relations, and partner engineering. He has a strong track record at companies like Chef, Kubecost, and now Wiz, leading regional expansion, community programs, and product integrations while reducing churn and driving partner projects. An active contributor to notable projects—Habitat, Omnibus, Backstage, OpenCost and various Chef cookbooks—he bridges packaging, CI/CD automation, backend cost modeling, and UI work. A seasoned public speaker, writer, and co‑host of the Software Defined Talk podcast, he excels at translating complex technical concepts into practical outcomes for customers and communities. His background in geology and dual CS degrees plus a master’s in software engineering gives him an uncommon systems-thinking perspective on distributed infrastructure and operations.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Software Engineering, Masters, Software Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (76)
cloud-computing10
package-management10
gitlab-omnibus10
testing10
bash10
material-ui10
ruby10
chef-client10
automation10
build-automation10
operating-system10
debian10
linux10
rabbitmq10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
rabbitmq/chef-cookbook
Apr 2011 - Aug 2013
Development repository for Chef cookbook RabbitMQ
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:76 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the infrastructure and configuration aspects of the RabbitMQ cookbook. Their work included the addition of upstart support, refactoring the order of operations to package, config files, and service, along with setting the correct service commands for various operating systems (Debian, RHEL, Fedora). They also made improvements to the testing framework. Furthermore, the user made changes to incorporate user and vhost management including password changes, permissions and tagging.
rabbitmqchefcookbooks
opencost/opencost
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Cost monitoring for Kubernetes workloads and cloud costs
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 122 reviews, 16 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Matt contributed to adding new features and improving existing ones related to disk storage, byte usage, and cloud cost modeling within the opencost/opencost repository. Their work involved modifying Go code within multiple packages, adding support for nilable fields, and incorporating metrics for storage-related data. These changes involved deep understanding of data structures and algorithms for working with disk assets, storage classes, and cloud cost-related data and calculations.
kubernetesmonitoringopencostawsazure
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