Summary
Matthew Coleman is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating distributed systems, container platforms, and cloud-native infrastructure across startups and enterprise teams. He blends low-level platform engineering with DevOps practice—designing CI/CD, configuration management, and custom PaaS solutions—while leading platform teams to production-ready roadmaps. Fluent in Python, Go, Erlang and a wide polyglot toolchain, he’s implemented systems integrating Kafka, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, etcd and Kubernetes on GCP, AWS and VMware. A pragmatic SRE manager-turned-platform engineer, he’s taught web-architecture at scale and driven container orchestration efforts at Wayfair and PathAI. Based in Boston, he advocates for and contributes to FOSS, often “looking for the ghosts in the machines” by surfacing hidden failures and automation opportunities.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
pursued BS Computer Engineering, pursued BS Computer Engineering at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale