Matt Young
TAG Operational Resilience Technical Lead
Groton, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Young is a technical leader and cloud-native strategist with 10+ years of experience building resilient infrastructure and developer-friendly delivery pipelines across companies like Apple, EverQuote, Red Hat, VMware, and Microsoft. He blends deep systems expertise—from storage and virtualization to compilers and operating systems—with recent focus on Kubernetes, observability, service meshes, and compliance to make production predictable and teams more productive. At CNCF he founded and co-chaired the TAG on Observability and now leads TAG Operational Resilience, reflecting a passion for shaping open source standards and cross-community collaboration. Known for customer-facing impact and inclusive team-building, he prioritizes continuous learning and practical patterns that scale. Based in Groton, MA, Matt brings a rare combination of low-level technical depth and pragmatic cloud architecture leadership that helps organizations bridge research, production, and governance.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
English, French, German
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Github Skills (200)
cap10
python10
grafana10
security10
svg10
profiling10
serverless10
ssh10
monitoring10
mesh10
scanner10
ord10
location10
ansible10
golang10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
cncf/tag-observability
Mar 2020 - Oct 2022
Technical Advisory Group for Observability 🔭⚙️
Contributions:4 reviews, 35 commits, 24 PRs in 2 years 8 months
analysisobservabilitykubernetesgrafanametrics
halcyondude/k8s-rucksack
Nov 2018 - Aug 2022
collection of interesting tools for K8s dev/operation, basically my notes.
Contributions:1 release, 33 commits, 12 PRs in 3 years 10 months
operationnotesdevinterestingk8s
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