Matthew Gertz
Principal Software Architect at Microsoft
Woodinville, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Gertz is a Principal Software Architect with 11+ years at Microsoft and a multi-decade career blending robotics research and large-scale developer tooling. He leads Azure SDK architecture work, championing API-first design, automation, and publishable language SDKs while driving shift-left practices and operational streamlining for services like Azure Redis Cache. Previously he guided cross-platform mobile IDEs, Visual Studio .NET developer experience, and Xbox Live services, combining deep systems design with hands-on performance and tooling expertise. Matthew is as comfortable mentoring teams and refining inclusive hiring practices as he is designing language editors, cloud services, and end-to-end engineering systems that measurably increase developer throughput. His background includes Ph.D.-level robotics work creating visual programming languages for manipulators, an unusual blend that informs both low-level dynamics thinking and high-level API design. Based in Woodinville, WA, he pairs extensive technical writing and customer engagement with a track record of operationalizing best practices across large organizations.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
B.S.E., Elec. Eng. & Comp Sci., B.S.E., Elec. Eng. & Comp Sci. at University of MichiganM.S.E., Elec. & Comp. Eng (Robotics), M.S.E., Elec. & Comp. Eng (Robotics) at Carnegie Mellon UniversityMonroe High School, Monroe, Michigan
Github Skills (88)
swagger10
csproj10
code-analysis10
visual-studio10
rest-api10
openapi10
roslyn10
dotnet-cli10
dotnet10
api10
sdk10
visual-studio-extension10
rest10
omnisharp10
compiler10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MattGertz/roslyn
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
roslyncompilersdotnetcompilervisual-basic
bterlson/tsp-mcp
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:15 pushes in 12 days
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