Matthew Bates
Founder & CEO at Cofide Security
Bath, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Bates is a founder and CEO with 12 years of experience building cloud-native security and identity platforms, currently leading Cofide to deliver Cofide Connect—an open-standards identity solution for securing workloads across any cloud. He has a strong track record scaling technical teams and products from startup to acquisition, having co-founded Jetstack (creator of cert-manager) and later served as CTO for its integration at Venafi. Matthew blends hands-on engineering, R&D and M&A advisory with customer-facing strategy, particularly around machine identity protection and Kubernetes-native infrastructure. Based in Bath, he pairs practical product delivery with open ecosystem thinking, focusing on interoperable standards rather than proprietary lock-in. His background spans roles from solutions architect at MongoDB to early mobile platform architecture, giving him breadth across infrastructure, security and developer tooling. Colleagues describe him as an entrepreneurial technologist who repeatedly turns infrastructure complexity into usable, production-ready services.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Computer Science, BSc (Hons) Computer Science at University of Nottingham
Github Skills (79)
scheduling10
mesos10
letsencrypt10
charts10
helm10
kubernetes10
cert10
certificate10
go10
cert-manager10
docker10
ssl10
kubernetes-monitoring10
k8s9
authenticate9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mattbates/cert-manager-website
Nov 2020 - Nov 2021
Source code for the cert-manager.io website, including project documentation
Contributions:3 pushes, 4 branches in 11 months
cert-managercertkubernetesproject-documentation
mattbates/kubernetes
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:6 pushes in 7 days
gcpcontainer-clusterdockerkubernetescluster-manager
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