Matt Ray
Software Engineer at Wiz
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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RockstarMatt Ray is a Technical Account Manager at Wiz based in Sydney with 15 years of experience connecting enterprise software, open source projects, and the teams that build and run them. He’s a hands‑on engineer and community leader who has contributed to high‑visibility projects like Backstage and OpenCost—porting the OpenCost UI to TypeScript and upstreaming it as a Backstage plugin—and works across Go, Ruby, TypeScript/React, Kubernetes and major cloud platforms. His background in DevOps, packaging and partner integrations spans Chef, RabbitMQ, Habitat and other projects, and he’s led technical and regional teams across APJ. A seasoned public speaker and co‑host of the Software Defined Talk podcast (4,500+ listeners), he brings an unusual analytical perspective informed by an earlier degree in geology turned software career.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (88)
gitlab-omnibus10
package-management10
cloud-computing10
testing10
bash10
material-ui10
ruby10
chef-client10
automation10
ci-cd10
build-automation10
operating-system10
debian10
linux10
rabbitmq10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
rabbitmq/chef-cookbook
Apr 2011 - Aug 2013
Development repository for Chef cookbook RabbitMQ
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:76 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the infrastructure and configuration aspects of the RabbitMQ cookbook. Their work included the addition of upstart support, refactoring the order of operations to package, config files, and service, along with setting the correct service commands for various operating systems (Debian, RHEL, Fedora). They also made improvements to the testing framework. Furthermore, the user made changes to incorporate user and vhost management including password changes, permissions and tagging.
cookbookrecipeinternalscookbookschef-resource
opencost/opencost
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Cost monitoring for Kubernetes workloads and cloud costs
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 122 reviews, 16 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Matt contributed to adding new features and improving existing ones related to disk storage, byte usage, and cloud cost modeling within the opencost/opencost repository. Their work involved modifying Go code within multiple packages, adding support for nilable fields, and incorporating metrics for storage-related data. These changes involved deep understanding of data structures and algorithms for working with disk assets, storage classes, and cloud cost-related data and calculations.
gcpcost-optimizationfinopskubecostcost-allocation
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