Matt Simonsen
Solutions Engineer at Grafana Labs
Greater Sacramento United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Simonsen is a solutions engineer with 8 years of formal experience and over two decades building resilient web infrastructure, operations, and teams. He founded and ran Khoza Technology, delivering zero-downtime enterprise launches, dramatic cost optimizations, and cloud-native platforms using Terraform, EKS, RDS, and CloudFlare before joining Coupa to lead and modernize their web development efforts. At Coupa he improved performance, reliability, and observability—introducing Grafana Cloud and edge caching to drive 99.999% uptime and fewer user-reported errors—work he now continues at Grafana Labs. Comfortable both leading teams and diving into hands-on SRE work, Matt has a track record of right-sizing infrastructure and moving legacy hosting to scalable, automated clouds. Based in Greater Sacramento, he combines entrepreneurial grit with deep systems expertise and a pragmatic focus on cost, security, and measurable reliability. An uncommon strength is his history of operating pre-cloud hosting through to modern IaC practices, giving him rare end-to-end perspective on production systems.
8 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Religious Studies, BA, Religious Studies at Westmont CollegeJesuit High School, Portland OR
English
Github Skills (69)
dashboard10
grafana10
elasticsearch10
monitoring10
data-visualization10
mysql10
analytics10
prometheus10
visualization10
markdown9
influxdb9
visualize9
cloudflare-workers9
business-intelligence9
observability9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mattsimonsen/terraform-provider-gsuite
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
A @HashiCorp Terraform provider for managing GSuite resources.
Contributions:11 pushes, 6 branches in 29 days
providergsuitehashicorp-terraformhashicorpterraform
GoodMoney/terraform-provider-gsuite
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
A @HashiCorp Terraform provider for managing GSuite resources.
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
providergsuitehashicorp-terraformhashicorpterraform
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