Matt Slocum is a seasoned engineering leader based in Broomfield, Colorado, with a two-decade arc of building secure, scalable systems and over a decade in senior software roles. Currently Director of Engineering at JumpCloud, he has progressed through principal engineering ranks and previously led multiple teams and cross-team architecture efforts as Senior Director at SpotX. Matt combines hands-on technical depth—web, cloud, Kubernetes migrations, and platform architecture—with strong delivery discipline, having instituted release trains that coordinated ten+ teams. He has a foundation in computer science from Bob Jones University and early career experience spanning web development, systems administration, and media production, which gives him an unusual fluency in both infrastructure and customer-facing products. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic architect who turns complex requirements into operational, auditable solutions while mentoring engineering teams. Off the obvious career ladder, he brings production video and DevOps roots that help him communicate complex technical trade-offs to nontechnical stakeholders.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Bob Jones University
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Matt Slocum - Director Of Engineering at JumpCloud