Matt Royal
Senior Staff Engineer at Gusto
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Royal is a Senior Staff Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building and leading full‑stack, cloud-native platforms and teams. He has driven significant Cloud Foundry replatforming work at VMware Tanzu—authoring CRD-based controllers and a backwards-compatible CF API—and now shapes platform engineering at Gusto. Comfortable as both an individual contributor and people manager, he has reduced release cycles and team sizes by automating delivery workflows and coached multiple first‑time leads. His open-source contributions span frontend accessibility and design-system work (pivotal-ui) as well as security and configurability enhancements to core Cloud Foundry components. Pragmatic, hands-on, and experienced across Go, Ruby, React, and infrastructure, he combines product-minded engineering with experience shipping at scale.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science and Engineering, BS Computer Science and Engineering at University of California, Berkeley
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Github Skills (20)
authorizations10
javascript10
cloud-foundry10
back-end-development10
system-design10
carbon-design-system10
ruby10
component-library10
sys10
authorization10
backend10
react10
webpack9
css9
configuration-management9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/cloud_controller_ng
Mar 2015 - Mar 2021
Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 150 commits, 39 PRs in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Matt's commits primarily focused on enhancing the Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller, a Ruby-based project. They implemented new configuration options, specifically addressing backend selection and SSH access controls. The changes involved modifying existing configuration files, adding features for user authorization, and creating tests to ensure the correct behavior of the added features. These commits demonstrate a focus on improving the security and configurability of the platform.
foundrycontrollercloud-foundrysap-hanaruby
pivotal-cf/pivotal-ui
Jun 2015 - Sep 2015
Pivotal's design system & component library
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:53 commits, 5 PRs, 34 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the `pivotal-ui` repository by modifying and enhancing React components. Their work focused on improving the contributor workflow and making updates to the design system, including adding features and improving accessibility. Several commits focused on refactoring, such as adding class names, IDs, and styles to existing React components. Further, there were contributions related to documentation and the build process, specifically related to the project's styleguide.
reactpivotaldesign-systemreact-componentscomponent-library
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