Matt Stephenson
Co-Founder And Chief Architect at IceGuard
Sacramento, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Stephenson is a seasoned software leader and architect with 15 years building high-scale, cloud-native infrastructure and distributed systems from startups to large enterprises. As Co-Founder and Chief Architect at IceGuard and former Distinguished Engineer and head of infrastructure at Starburst, he designed multi-cloud Kubernetes dataplanes, global deployment pipelines, event buses on Kafka, and observability and billing systems across dozens of regions. Previously he led major scalability and cost-reduction initiatives at Cash App and architected serverless and container-native offerings at Oracle, demonstrating both hands-on engineering and strategic productization. An active contributor to open-source projects like jclouds and Airlift, he has improved core backend functionality and added advanced logging features used by REST services. Based in California, he blends deep systems engineering with mentorship and process design, and quietly favors pragmatic refactors that unlock long-term operability and cost savings.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Electrical Engineering Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Master of Science Electrical Engineering Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas
Github Skills (8)
json10
javas10
rest-api10
logging10
object-oriented-programming10
java10
testing10
rest8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
jclouds/legacy-jclouds
Nov 2011 - Apr 2013
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the back-end of the project by implementing new functionality related to server management and API interactions. They added features to retrieve server, flavor, and image details via UUIDs. Additionally, they refactored the Flavor class and added VCPU support, demonstrating a focus on enhancing core domain objects. The user also addressed a bug related to the Nova client by modifying headers for compatibility.
airlift/airlift
Jul 2021 - Sep 2022
Airlift framework for building REST services
Role in this project:Backend Engineer
Backend EngineerContributions:81 reviews, 7 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on enhancing the logging capabilities of the Airlift framework. Their contributions include adding support for JSON-formatted logging, which involved creating new classes and modifying existing formatters. They also implemented a socket logger to enable logging to external services and refactored the rolling file handler. The user also added annotation support to improve the flexibility and functionality of the logging system.
restrest-services
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