Matthew Anderson
Chief Technology Officer & Co-founder at Openlane
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Anderson is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder with 11 years of hands-on experience building highly available, secure cloud and bare-metal platforms across industries from email to government. As CTO at Openlane and formerly Director of Metal Platform Engineering at Equinix, he led open-source provisioning efforts (notably Tinkerbell), CI/CD, and enterprise security and compliance programs that scaled production infrastructure. He has driven large digital transformations in both public sector (Colorado DMV, payroll, MyColorado) and enterprise settings, combining product strategy with deep operational rigor. Comfortable in Go, Linux, and Python, he blends engineering craftsmanship with investment-minded tech strategy through his work at Humans of the Internet. Colocated in Chicago, he is actively pursuing angel investment to accelerate his startup’s growth while continuing to mentor and professionalize cloud operations teams.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of Kansas
Spanish, English
Github Skills (20)
git10
github10
patch9
api9
os-agnostic9
python8
lua8
vim8
subversion8
conda8
linux8
neovim8
package-management8
text-editor8
ecosystem7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
matta9001/sn-onedark
Feb 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:16 releases, 28 commits, 26 pushes in 2 months
mannders00/dotfiles
Oct 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:91 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
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