Matthew Trifiro
Early-Stage GTM Expert at Trust for Public Land
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Trifiro is an early-stage GTM expert and technical CMO based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience helping startups define categories and scale demand. He specializes in edge computing, container orchestration, and distributed systems, and has a proven record of launching markets—from Interactive TV and Datacenter OS to Edge Computing—by combining strategic storytelling with product-led positioning. As founder of COSSA and former VP at The Linux Foundation, he accelerates commercial open source businesses by providing mentorship, capital access, and repeatable go-to-market playbooks. At Vapor IO and Mesosphere he built outsized market leadership with very lean teams, creating research, community and advocacy vehicles like State of the Edge and the Open Grid Alliance. He hosts Over the Edge, the leading edge-computing podcast, and is comfortable moving between boardrooms, developer communities, and technical product strategy. Less obvious: he blends a humanities-trained background in rhetoric and cognitive science with hands-on marketing engineering, enabling him to reduce executive cognitive load while surfacing the real levers that drive growth.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Philosophy Cognitive Science Linguistics Rhetoric, Philosophy Cognitive Science Linguistics Rhetoric at University of California, BerkeleyProfessional Program Cooking, Professional Program Cooking at Tante Marie's Cooking School
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Github Skills (49)
foundation9
edge-computing9
glossary9
linux8
reader7
percentage7
landscape6
macbook-pro6
vdi6
battery-level6
battery5
issue-tracking5
touchbar5
power-management5
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
State-of-the-Edge/glossary
Jun 2018 - Jul 2020
The Linux Foundation's Open Glossary of Edge Computing project curates and defines terms related to the field of edge computing, collecting common and accepted definitions into an openly licensed repository.
Contributions:70 commits, 20 PRs, 44 pushes in 2 years 1 month
licensedlinux-foundationedge-computinglinuxedge
mtrifiro/edge-glossary
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
[WIP] Glossary for "State of the Edge"
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
wipedgeglossary
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