Matt Riedemann
Senior Software Engineer - IBM Quantum
Rochester, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Riedemann is a senior software engineer with nearly two decades of experience building and operating cloud and infrastructure software, currently focused on the IBM Quantum Experiment platform. He blends deep OpenStack expertise—having been Nova PTL for multiple releases and a prolific contributor to projects like Nova, Cinder and Tempest—with modern cloud-native engineering using Node.js, Python, Kubernetes, Terraform and Helm. Matt has shipped across the full lifecycle from requirements and design to deployment and observability, and he runs production services monitored with Sysdig, LogDNA and Jaeger. He has a track record of leading distributed, global teams and open source communities, driving backwards compatibility, scalability and technical debt reduction. Beyond core engineering, he contributes to developer tooling and docs (Jupyter, DevStack) and has adapted quantum tooling in Qiskit to evolving IBM APIs, showing an ability to bridge research platforms and production systems. Based in Rochester, MN, he combines enterprise-grade process rigor with hands-on contributions to large open-source ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, GPA 4.0, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, GPA 4.0 at South Dakota State University
English
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Github Skills (55)
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python10
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sphinx10
restful-api10
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/nova
Jan 2017 - Dec 2019
OpenStack Compute (Nova). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1747 commits, 2 comments in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Matt's contributions focus on enhancing the OpenStack Compute (Nova) project, primarily through tasks related to the scheduler and volume management, evident in the cleanups and tests for these modules. The user introduced new features and added support for the volume-backed servers. Their work involved enhancements to the existing code to account for new features, like creating a server and its related records in the target cell database, with a focus on improving operational workflows. The user also focused on improving overall system performance by adding cache functionality
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openstack/python-novaclient
Feb 2017 - Aug 2019
OpenStack Compute (Nova) Client. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:65 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on removing deprecated commands and APIs related to network and baremetal functionality within the python-novaclient project. This involved modifications across shell, tests, and contrib modules to remove obsolete functionalities deprecated in previous OpenStack releases. Furthermore, the user addressed code related to flavor descriptions and other deprecation tasks, including the removal of legacy code from the project. The contributions aimed at improving the project by cleaning the codebase and adapting to the evolving OpenStack API.
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