Matt 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.
19 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Continuing Education, Continuing Education at Concordia University
Continuing Education, Continuing Education at George Brown College
Continuing Education, Continuing Education at University of Toronto
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Engineering with Professional Internship, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Engineering with Professional Internship at Queen's University
Kiali project, observability for the Istio service mesh
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions: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.
[EOL] Compute Resource Usage Analysis and Monitoring of Container Clusters
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions: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.
containersclustersdockereolkubernetes
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.
Request Free Trial
Matt Wringe - Manager, Software Engineering at Red Hat