Resume

Matt Stofko stofko@acm.org

Hello! My name is Matt and I’ve been doing something related to technology (usually software), for almost three decades. I particularly love making technology products that solve a pressing need for customers and that are a delight to use in the process. Lately, I’ve found a love for creating and enabling high-performing engineering teams that make such products. The team and the customer are central to everything I do, and I’m known for saying “People make software for people!” Below is a selection of my experience. Thanks for reading.

StrateSea Technology, Inc.

VP of Engineering

October 2025 - Present

A part of a small team working at the edge of multi-sensor intelligence for environments from the seafloor to space.

Responsible for:

Design and implementation of Linux-based embedded product that integrates with customer UxS vehicles.
Linux port of the FeatureLab desktop software product.
Prospective customer demos and assisting with onboarding of new customers.
Internal IT infrastructure and process, information security, and related compliance initiatives.
Design and implementation of SDLC: from product feature planning, software development processes, CI infrastructure, SBOM generation and code signing, to product installer build process, including all development environment configuration, internal tooling, and testing strategy.

Slalom, Inc.

Principal / Senior Principal

January 2022 - September 2025

Leading a team of technology consultants who focus on software development, architecture, and IT organization optimization.
Responsible for consulting practice strategy, multimillion-dollar sales pipeline, and overall team health (people leadership and hiring, practice financial health, and go-to-market strategy).
Assisting senior IT leader clients with IT organization and systems architecture challenges.
Providing engagement leadership for consulting projects, ensuring client and consultant satisfaction while staying within budget.
Cultivating long-term partnerships with local clients, with a vision of making Portland Oregon a top city for technology innovation.

Consultant / Senior Consultant

May 2019 - December 2021

Cloud and DevOps consultant specializing in cloud enablement and DevOps practice adoption projects.
Assisted clients with software development, cloud architecture, and engineering team dynamic challenges across diverse industries (Government, Financial Services & Insurance, Telecommunications, Technology / SaaS, EdTech).
Contributed to creation of internal accelerators to enhance our ability to quickly drive results for our clients. Some examples include a DevOps Maturity Model, technology selection matrices, and cloud migration patterns for common client challenges.

Act-On Software, Inc.

DevOps Engineer

April 2018 - May 2019

Collaborated across the engineering teams to develop the internal IaC code base.
Deployed and provided internal team onboarding for a production HashiCorp Vault cluster.
Led the initiative to transition legacy operations workflows into CI pipelines.
Provided mentorship and coaching to the PSU/PDX Cooperative Education Program (PCEP) intern.
Participated in a 24x7 on-call rotation.

Blurb, Inc.

Lead Engineer, DevOps

July 2016 - April 2018

Technical lead for combined DevOps / TechOps / NetEng / DBA team.
Developed custom provisioning process to support both on-premise KVM and AWS EC2 deployments using Ansible, Packer, and HashiCorp Vault within a single UI.
Aided engineering teams in root cause analysis of performance problems in Ruby on Rails and Java microservices architecture.
Implemented Icinga and ThousandEyes to provide full monitoring coverage of both internal and external systems and networks.
Led initiative to develop engineering guidelines around deployments, troubleshooting, security, and coding standards.
Participated in a 24x7 on-call rotation.
Worked with team to redesign old Jenkins 1.x ad-hoc job workflow into a pipeline-oriented Jenkins 2.x system.

SurveyMonkey, Inc.

Systems Engineer / Senior Systems Engineer

November 2013 - June 2016

Primary operations support for Wufoo (https://wufoo.com).
Supported development and production environments using OpenStack, VMware, KVM, and bare metal systems on Dell hardware.
Supported Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows back-end systems for multiple products.
Participated in a 24x7 on-call rotation.
Responsible for architecture and day-to-day operations of a 500GB/day Splunk installation.
Ran the day-to-day operations of the Portland colocation presence.
Defined and developed a custom virtualization strategy with KVM, bash, MySQL, and ZFS.
Developed configuration management system using ansible.

mjslabs

Sole Proprietorship

November 2012 - Present

Contributing back to open source projects.
Creating free and open-source software to solve community needs.
Maintainer of the Yubico FreeBSD ports, Bitwarden Ansible module, and other software utilities.
Previously: provided custom hardware and software solutions for clients.

List of open source projects can be found at https://github.com/mjslabs and https://github.com/c0sco

24th Degree

Lead Engineer

June 2011 - November 2012

Developed custom back-end solutions for clients primarily using Perl, Python, MySQL, and JavaScript in Linux and FreeBSD environments.
Supported security and privacy related auditing, research, and product development primarily based around web, mobile, and networking technologies.
Managed the development environment for all products using Git, BIND, Apache, MySQL, ssh, ipfw, dovecot and squid on FreeBSD.

An example of a public JavaScript project for samy.pl: http://samy.pl/jiagra

An example of research done on persistent tracking cookies: http://samy.pl/research/KMResearch-SamyKamkar.pdf

Fonality, Inc.

Perl Developer / Senior Engineer

November 2006 - June 2011

Worked with the product and systems teams to design new features to satisfy requirements of new software releases and ensure availability of technical resources to guarantee project success.
Designed and engineered GUIs for the PBXtra and trixbox Pro products, and Intranet and Internet sites using Template Toolkit, JavaScript and CSS.
Designed back-end systems for the PBXtra and trixbox Pro products including scaling and performance enhancements in Perl with Apache, MySQL, and memcached.
Managed code releases using Subversion to ensure code was tagged, sent to QA, and released to alpha, beta, and production servers.
Collaborated with the systems team to automate common infrastructure tasks, provide coverage for the CentOS infrastructure, and develop business processes.
Supervised a five-person team of Perl, JavaScript, and Java developers to ensure successful completion of various projects.

A video tutorial of the Fonality 5 product that my team and I worked on can be found at https://mattstofko.com/video/fonality5.mp4 (37 megabytes).

A video tutorial of the FindMe feature that I designed can be found at https://mattstofko.com/video/findme.mp4 (14 megabytes).

References available on request.

You can go back even further in my job history and see my recommendations on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/stofko