Matt Wringe
Manager, Software Engineering at Red Hat
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMatt Wringe is a seasoned software engineering leader with 19 years at Red Hat, now managing OpenShift Observability teams including OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and the Observability UI. He combines hands-on full‑stack work—contributing frontend React/TypeScript improvements to the widely used Kiali project and backend/DevOps enhancements to Kubernetes’ Heapster—with team leadership and cross‑project architecture. Matt has a strong track record scaling metrics and monitoring solutions for large OpenShift clusters and driving stability improvements in distributed systems. Based in Old Toronto, he blends product-focused engineering with mentoring and practical DevOps experience, and brings a history of shipping both UI polish and low-level backend fixes in open source.
20 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Continuing Education, Continuing Education at Concordia UniversityContinuing Education, Continuing Education at George Brown CollegeContinuing Education, Continuing Education at University of TorontoBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Engineering with Professional Internship, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Engineering with Professional Internship at Queen's University
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Github Skills (28)
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
data-collection10
typescript10
go10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
kubernetes-pods10
collections10
typescripts10
react10
metric10
container9
observability9
authentication9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kiali/kiali
Feb 2018 - Sep 2019
Kiali project, observability for the Istio service mesh
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:105 commits, 65 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Matt contributed to the Kiali project by implementing and modifying frontend components using React and TypeScript to improve the service graph visualization. They added features like a loading page and an empty state page for the service graph. Additionally, the user updated the title of the application and refactored the code to use a different graph layout for service nodes. These changes involved modifications to both the frontend (UI) and the backend (API) aspects of the application.
istiokialiobservabilityservice-meshopenshift
kubernetes-retired/heapster
Feb 2016 - Mar 2017
[EOL] Compute Resource Usage Analysis and Monitoring of Container Clusters
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 13 PRs, 81 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the backend functionalities of the Heapster project. They added support for client-based authentication, fixed code formatting issues, and integrated Hawkular sink functionalities including labeled metrics and label tag handling. They also modified the node aggregator to prevent fetching metrics from unreachable nodes, demonstrating contributions to the system's stability.
monitoring
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