Matty Stratton

Head of Developer Advocacy and Docs

TigerData creators of TimescaleDB

Sep 2025 - Current (1 year)

Solutions Architect

Turbot

Mar 2025 - Sep 2025 (7 months)

Director, Developer Relations and Growth

Aiven

Aug 2022 - Oct 2024 (2 years 3 months)

🚀 Led a global team of developer advocates, educators, community managers, and growth specialists to drive user engagement and business growth. 🔹 Program Strategy & Execution: Designed and launched impactful initiatives, including: - Online Developer Workshops: Achieved record-breaking registrations, generating over $15K in sales pipeline per quarter and expanding the mailing list. - Open Source Data Infrastructure Meetups: Established 23 groups across 16 countries, attracting 7,000+ members and introducing key sales accounts to their first Aiven experience. - Influencer Marketing Program: Outperformed paid social and search campaigns in trial activation at a lower cost. 📊 Growth & Revenue Impact: - Developed a data-driven

Staff Developer Advocate

Pulumi Corporation

Mar 2021 - Jul 2022 (1 year 5 months)

- Delivered memorable presentations and keynotes at industry and community conferences, sharing expertise on DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, and Cloud Engineering principles. - Established the “Puluminaries” Community Champion Program, fostering advocacy and recognition within the Pulumi user community. - Collaborated across Marketing teams to seamlessly integrate community feedback into product marketing strategies, ensuring alignment with customer needs. - Implemented a community measurement framework to connect developer advocacy efforts with measurable community growth metrics. - Developed example code in TypeScript, Python, and Go to demonstrate advanced configuration and deployment across multiple cloud platforms, including AWS, GCP,

Sales Specialist, Transformation Office

Red Hat

Mar 2020 - Mar 2021 (1 year 1 month)

- Built strategic relationships with executives and key leaders to promote and sell Red Hat's portfolio of emerging technologies, including cloud solutions, PaaS (OpenShift powered by Kubernetes and Docker), mobile platforms, application development, service hosting, and integration tools for both on-prem and cloud environments. - Acted as a trusted advisor to senior technology leaders in State and Local public sector agencies, driving cultural transformation initiatives. - Designed the “Five Elements Assessment” pre-sales tool, enabling successful closure of transformational services engagements. - Represented the Public Sector Transformation Office as a speaker and panelist at government-focused conferences and events.

Principal Developer Advocate

PagerDuty

Dec 2017 - Mar 2020 (2 years 4 months)

- Represented PagerDuty's values and principles globally by speaking at industry events on topics such as DevOps and HumanOps, fostering community engagement and thought leadership. - Developed and open-sourced Ops Guides, sharing best practices for Incident Response, Operational Reviews, and other key operational processes. - Spearheaded the implementation of results-driven metrics to measure the effectiveness of the Community and Advocacy team. - Collaborated with senior IT leaders at customer and prospect organizations to share expertise on digital transformation and DevOps best practices, driving strategic growth and innovation. - Created and managed PagerDuty's "Breakathon" event, overseeing infrastructure development, content creatio

Senior Solutions Architect

Chef Software

Jun 2014 - Dec 2017 (3 years 7 months)

- Advised enterprise customers on technical architecture and DevOps transformations, linking technical strategy to business outcomes. - Engaged with large enterprise pre-sales customers to showcase Chef’s value, leading to improved adoption, faster sales cycles, and stronger customer confidence in the solution. - Developed engaging product demos to showcase how Chef automates configuration management for application servers like WebSphere and Tomcat, other server products on Linux and Windows, and monitoring tools like Nagios. - Provided expertise in configuring Jenkins and other CI/CD tools used by customers to integrate safe and predictable results of the Chef solution. - Created a new Proof of Concept experience, enhancing pre-sales eff

Managing Consultant

th Magnitude Inc

Oct 2013 - May 2014 (8 months)

- Lead the 10th Magnitude practice for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Infrastructure Automation, and DevOps consulting engagements. Hired and managed two Infrastructure Consultants. - Collaborated with clients to leverage cutting-edge optimization techniques, tools, and concepts to streamline delivery, eliminate waste, and increase velocity. - Developed comprehensive Statements of Work for all IaaS and DevOps engagements, supporting Business Development in pre-sales efforts by aligning technical scope with business potential. - Trained customer staff on Infrastructure as a Service in Microsoft Azure, as well as Chef for configuration management. - Defined patterns and practices for DevOps engagements using Continuous Delivery, Confi

Infrastructure Architect

Apartmentscom

Jan 2013 - Jun 2013 (6 months)

Work directly with Technology Operations on improvements to technical environments, automation, and continuous integration/deployments, as well as identification of future platforms and systems. • Implemented and designed Configuration Management initiative (using Chef and Vagrant) to facilitate DevOps collaboration and culture. • Introduced Continuous Delivery practices and model to improve delivery velocity and dramatically decrease cycle time, including environment collapse and delivery pipeline. Coordinated with automated test group to align initiatives. • Designed and architected public cloud solution for development and test environments for new technology stack, using Engine Yard and Amazon Web Services (EC2)

Director, Technology Operations

Apartmentscom

Feb 2012 - Jan 2013 (1 year)

• Introduced change management and incident management processes based upon ITIL standards. Managed support incidents and coordinated with application support teams. Took on new responsibility of managing Level 1 support organization. • Managed multi-million dollar annual budget, including capital, consulting, and other vendor relationship management activities. • Designed Continuous Delivery process and created Release Management team. Hired Apartments.com’s first Release Manager. • Lead team responsible for large-scale hypervisor migration to enable private cloud implementation. • Recognized by several key vendor partners (including Serena Software and Microsoft) as a thought leader and invited to speak at industry conferences/events

Manager of IT Operations

Apartmentscom

Nov 2007 - Feb 2012 (4 years 4 months)

• Lead team of systems administrators and database administrators responsible for support of over 400 Windows and Linux production servers for customer-facing, best-of-breed consumer search website with over 6 million visits per month. • Mentored staff on prioritization and communication. Perform annual performance review of staff. Created sysadmin internship program. Mentored three sys admin interns. • Evaluated new infrastructure and Web technologies and made recommendations to other technology groups. • Streamlined system monitoring efforts from 8 disparate tools to 3 industry-standard suites. • Acted as liaison between line-of-business technical department and corporate technology groups.

Engineer Lead

JPMorgan Chase

Jul 2004 - Oct 2007 (3 years 4 months)

Manage all server-related technical aspects of solutions based on Microsoft Windows operating systems and VMWare Virtual Infrastructure 3 for Treasury and Securities Services, one of the largest cash management providers in the world. Identify leverage opportunities across teams and integrate common functions/practices. Work with Production Support group to strengthen infrastructure and improve production stability on systems processing an average of $2.8 trillion in wire transfers daily. Define process and standards for Wintel-based server deployments for all TSS projects. Work with multiple application teams to develop requirements, and create infrastructure designs that enable highly available, fault-tolerant, and cost effective solution

Server Engineer (Consultant)

Aon

Jan 2003 - Jan 2004 (1 year 1 month)

Worked with business units and server architecture group to plan and deploy Windows 2000 servers for high-availability resources. Supported Novell servers and participated in capacity planning for disk space utilization

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Technical Principal

Heller Financial

Mar 2001 - Jun 2002 (1 year 4 months)

Acted as principal systems integrator, coordinating business managers and IT resources in financial systems projects. Defined infrastructure standards for all Microsoft-based server technologies, including Exchange and Windows 2000. Managed team of engineers in design and implementation of all server-based infrastructure in a multiple site environment. Developed automated mailbox migration system from legacy 5.5 environment to Exchange 2000. Re-engineered WINS and DNS environments for efficiency and to best leverage new Windows 2000 technologies. Led team in planning, design, and management of Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 upgrade to Windows 2000 Active Directory enterprise initiative with over 300 servers

Network Engineer

Heidrick Struggles

Mar 2000 - Mar 2001 (1 year 1 month)

Responsible for maintaining network security/integrity across a global WAN. Provided support for frame relay network connections. Designed system for connecting new office acquisitions using VPN technologies. Designed and implemented DMZ infrastructure for secure connections to vendor networks, as well as Outlook Web Access

Senior Member of Technical Staff

Computer Sciences Corporation

Jan 1998 - Jan 2000 (2 years 1 month)

Worked with architecture team on planning and forecasting new technologies. Led selection and testing effort for performance monitoring/capacity planning software. Integrated newly acquired offices into enterprise environment.

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Systems Integrator

AIS Network

Jan 1998

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