Matt Strong
Senior Director Of Software Engineering at Oracle
Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Strong is a senior software engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and operating global, highly available cloud services, currently leading Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) as Senior Director of Software Engineering. He has advanced through technical and managerial roles at Oracle—from Principal Engineer to Director—combining hands-on systems experience with people-first leadership and a passion for growing talent. Matt balances feature delivery and platform reliability, having contributed to core Go tooling (notably work on the golang/dep project) and deployment/debugging workflows early in his career. Based in Florida, he pairs a B.S. in Computer Science with an ongoing MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler, bringing both technical depth and business acumen to strategic decisions. Colleagues know him for preferring to enable teams over writing the code himself, yet he still dives into code and infrastructure when it matters. He excels at translating complex distributed-systems challenges into operationally robust, team-scalable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Florida Atlantic UniversityMaster of Business Administration - MBA Business Administration Management and Operations, Master of Business Administration - MBA Business Administration Management and Operations at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
English
Github Skills (8)
dependency-management10
go10
package-manager10
toolchain10
automations9
automation9
sem9
testing8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
golang/dep
Jan 2017 - Oct 2017
Go dependency management tool experiment (deprecated)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 7 PRs, 60 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on improving the Go dependency management tool. They implemented features such as logging messages for dependency discovery. Code changes also included updating dependencies, modifying versioning, and fixing tests. Furthermore, the user worked on prefetching and logging output during initialization, demonstrating involvement in the build process or project setup.
golangdependency-managementpackage-managertoolchaindependency-manager
xmattstrongx/gostuff
Jul 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 105 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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