Matt has spent more than 20 years building products and services around open source software, on everything from embedded devices to large scale distributed systems. Matt is a regular speaker at conferences across the world, including KubeCon, DockerCon, FOSDEM and All Things Open, a past winner of the OpenStack Outstanding Community Contributor award, and in 2021 was named one of the Top 100 influencers in Open Technologies in the UK. Matt is a board director and Vice Chair of OpenUK, and the founder of Cloud Native Manchester, Kubernetes Community Days UK and Cloud Natives UK.