Matt Rutherford
Head Of Change Delivery at Meta
Leinster, Ireland
Summary
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RockstarMatt Rutherford is a seasoned change delivery leader with over 20 years of experience guiding large-scale organisational and technical transformations across Meta, LinkedIn, Microsoft and Intuit. As Head of Change Delivery at Meta he blends hands-on program leadership with people-focused change management, having previously driven regional reorganisations, launch communications and customer success operations across EMEA and LATAM. He pairs a deep service delivery pedigree—running global support, care and customer success teams—with a practical engineering mindset evidenced by open-source back-end contributions to high-profile blockchain projects like Parity Ethereum and Substrate. That technical thread shows up in pragmatic improvements for reliability, tracing and CI robustness, reflecting an ability to translate complex engineering issues into operational wins. Colleagues describe him as a steady operator who elevates team performance and engagement while making messy, human change easier to navigate. Based in Leinster, Ireland, he brings an uncommon combination of enterprise-scale leadership and low-level systems problem-solving.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (26)
substrate10
performance-monitor10
performance-analytics10
tracer10
code-profiling10
rpc10
polkadot-js10
performance-analysis10
ethereum10
blockchain10
profiling10
rust10
performance-monitoring10
polkadot10
trace10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
paritytech/substrate
Apr 2019 - May 2021
Substrate: The platform for blockchain innovators
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:56 reviews, 12 commits, 28 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on improving the substrate framework, particularly related to instrumentation and tracing. They implemented features to record arbitrary values with span creation. Furthermore, the user refactored code to use the tracing primitives and added performance profiling capabilities to runtime functions. In addition, they addressed logging and error handling improvements throughout the codebase.
blockchainsubstrateparitypolkadotnode
openethereum/parity-ethereum
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
The fast, light, and robust client for Ethereum-like networks.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 15 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Matt contributed to the Parity Ethereum client by addressing RPC-related issues and enhancing the codebase. Their work included fixing intermittent failures in the CI environment by allowing the OS to set ports at runtime. The user also implemented validity checks for reported hashes in the filter_changes RPC, ensuring data integrity. Furthermore, they introduced a LenCachingMutex utility to optimize performance within the verification queue by caching the length of collections.
ethereumblockchainnoderust
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