Matt Richter
Staff Infrastructure Engineer at Reserv
Newton, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Richter is a Staff Infrastructure Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating resilient cloud-native systems from Newton, Massachusetts. He progressed through DevOps and production operations roles into senior and staff infrastructure positions, currently shaping infrastructure at Reserv after leading DevOps teams at Validity and Motus. Matt contributes to open source—enhancing grafanalib by adding new Grafana panel types and fixing subtle formatting and time-pattern bugs—demonstrating attention to observability and UX for operators. He blends practical systems administration roots with modern infrastructure engineering, favoring pragmatic improvements that reduce toil and improve dashboarding and monitoring fidelity.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Merrimack College
Github Skills (5)
monitoring10
dashboard10
grafana10
python10
ed2551910
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
weaveworks/grafanalib
Feb 2020 - Oct 2020
Python library for building Grafana dashboards
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 51 commits, 37 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Matt's contributions center around enhancing the `grafanalib` library, primarily by adding support for new panel types within Grafana. They implemented `BarGauge`, `GaugePanel`, `Heatmap` and `Statusmap` panels, and made related updates to the CHANGELOG and core functionality. The user also addressed formatting issues and addressed a bug related to the `time` pattern, showing a focus on code quality and usability.
python-librarypythongrafana-dashboardsdashboardsedsl
matthewmrichter/helm-scalyr
Apr 2022 - Jul 2022
A helm chart for the Scalyr agent.
Contributions:1 push, 6 branches in 3 months
agentcharthelmhelm-charthelm-charts
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