Matthew Baird
Chief Technology Officer at AppFolio
Belmont, California, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Baird is a veteran technology executive and three-time founder with over two decades of experience building big data, analytics, and cloud-native SaaS platforms for startups and Global 2000 customers. Currently CTO and SVP Engineering at AppFolio, he combines hands-on engineering—evidenced by work like authoring the Go Elasticsearch client elastigo—with enterprise product strategy, patents in Big Data, and a track record of scaling global engineering and customer-success teams. He founded AtScale, shaping market concepts such as the Universal Semantic Layer and Autonomous Data Engineering while leading product, UX, and security design for data virtualization at scale. A frequent speaker at major data conferences and an author, he’s known for translating deep technical concepts into business-impacting decisions and for building diverse, high-performing teams. His career shows a rare blend of practical open source experience, executive presence, and sustained focus on using data-driven systems to influence human behavior and digital transformation.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
bsch Math, bsch Math at Queen's University
English
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Github Skills (9)
elasticsearch10
elasticsearchquery10
go10
api10
aws-elasticsearch10
apidoc10
elasticsearch-api10
amazon-elasticsearch10
http9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mattbaird/elastigo
Oct 2012 - Jan 2017
A Go (golang) based Elasticsearch client library.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:258 commits, 33 PRs, 34 pushes in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Matthew's primary contribution was the initial development of the `elastigo` Elasticsearch client library, implementing core functionalities. Their work focused on setting up the basic request structure for interacting with an Elasticsearch instance by implementing various API calls. The commits demonstrate the creation of essential request handling, and the creation of API calls.
golangclient-libraryopensearchelasticsearchelasticsearch-client
mattbaird/tableau4go
Aug 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 years 7 months
golangclient-librarygolang-clienttableautableau-server
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