Summary
Matthew Gilham is a founder and seasoned software leader with 11 years of experience building large-scale, production-focused data and cloud platforms. He led Salesforce’s Spark-as-a-Service effort from architect to senior director, operating thousands of nodes across multi-datacenter Kubernetes deployments and owning SLAs, on-call, and incident response. Matthew combines deep hands-on engineering across Scala/Java, Spark, Kafka, Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure with a product-minded approach to reduce execution risk and ship quickly. His background spans startups to enterprise—co-founding a virtual currency startup and now launching a PaaS via Continuous Cloud—demonstrating an appetite for novel architectures like database model experiments and real-time/batch hybrid aggregations. Based in Bellevue, WA, he’s as comfortable prototyping research-grade systems as he is running 24/7 production services.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Oregon State University