Agile Methods for Tackling Technical Debt

Screencast Transcript: Improving Webpack Build Times

Git Workflows For Successful Deployment

Building and supporting high-availability infrastructure for sites like TMZ and News Corp shaped much of Matt's technical philosophy - namely that executing big ideas requires a healthy team and solid DevOps foundation. Matt knows machines aren't the boss of us and enjoys pushing them around using a variety of programming languages with Go and JavaScript as current favorites.

Matt helps people improve their infrastructure and development workflow both as a consultant at Bocoup and a member of the open source community. He maintains and contributes to many security-focused open source projects like [aes-gcm-stream](https://github.com/mattsurabian/aes-gcm-stream), [go-tls](https://github.com/mattsurabian/go-tls), the [proxpn-bash-client](https://github.com/mattsurabian/proxpn-bash-client), [viper](https://github.com/spf13/viper) and [tlspark](https://github.com/bnagy/enough). His main technical interests are performance at scale and security, though he also enjoys [dabbling in game development](https://duckhuntjs.com). He was recently certified by HashiCorp in their [Vault tool](https://vaultproject.io) and looks great in a tinfoil hat.

In another life, Matt worked in a professional kitchen; his passion for making (and consuming!) quality food continues to this day. When not coding, cooking, or stuffing his face, Matt enjoys backpacking, hunting, fishing, and working on his 102-year-old farm house with his wife Taryn.