Summary
Matt Stave is a veteran software leader with over three decades in commercial software and more than 13 years focused on architecture and leadership roles at IBM. He has deep expertise in program, project, and release management, software test and quality assurance, and engineering management, with hands-on familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud-native practices. His career spans influential early roles at Borland and senior management at Alphablox, giving him perspective across startups and large enterprise engineering. Known for steering complex delivery pipelines, he blends operational discipline with technical architecture to keep large programs on schedule and high quality. Now retired and based in Round Rock, Texas, he brings a pragmatic, systems-level mindset and institutional knowledge valuable to mentoring, advisory, or part-time technical leadership. An understated strength is his long-running focus on aligning rigorous QA processes with rapid release cadences to sustainably scale teams and products.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer