Matthew Kocher
Staff II Engineer, Tanzu Application Service
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Kocher is a seasoned engineering leader and hands-on Staff II engineer at VMware’s Tanzu Application Service with 17 years of experience building container platforms, developer tools, and cloud-native systems. He has scaled engineering organizations from 10 to 150 people, led teams through Pivotal’s IPO and VMware acquisition, and then deliberately returned to individual contributor work to stay close to shipping code. His recent contributions include HTTP/2 support, expanded RBAC, and logging scalability improvements, and his open-source work touches core Cloud Foundry and BOSH components—improving CI, health monitoring, and permissions. Based in Berkeley, he blends strong operational and backend expertise with a pragmatic people-first leadership style, and he’s as comfortable refactoring complex distributed systems as mentoring new managers.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
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Github Skills (17)
back-end-development10
testing10
rspec10
bash10
cicd10
ruby10
opentsdb10
eventmachine10
devops10
cloud-foundry9
rbac9
role-based-access-control9
mysql7
ruby-on-rails6
dockers5
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/cloud_controller_ng
Apr 2021 - Aug 2022
Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 43 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the implementation of features related to the space application supporter role, adding new functionality and modifying existing code to support it. Their work involved modifying role types, creating messages, and adding tests. Additionally, the user backfilled tests for environment variables and app-related functionalities. They also worked on refactoring and fixing permission issues within the code base.
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cloudfoundry/bosh
Dec 2012 - Oct 2013
Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 27 commits, 1 PR in 9 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on improving the health monitoring system, specifically the integration with OpenTSDB. Their contributions included fixing retry mechanisms in the TsdbConnection class and adding unit tests for exponential backoff behavior. They also made changes to the OpenStack and AWS registry API controllers by adding error logging. Finally, they contributed to the deployment process by adding git core for git gems and addressing job renaming and deployment dependencies.
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