Matt Armstrong

CTO

San Jose, California, United States19 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led engineering for multiple SaaS platforms.
Expert in AIOps and cloud analytics solutions.
Strong leadership in reliability and observability engineering.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Security expert with strong leadership in engineering management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementTechnical LeadershipReliability EngineeringObservabilityData EngineeringSecurity ApplicationsAiopsSoftware DevelopmentSurveillance TechnologyCloud AnalyticsMachine Learning

Other Skills

Cloud ComputingSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Solution ArchitectureCloud SecurityTeam LeadershipPeople ManagementOrganizational LeadershipLeadershipManagementEnterprise ArchitectureEnterprise SoftwareSQL

Experience

19 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs

Current Experience

Confluent

3 roles

Senior Director, Engineering

Promoted

Sep 2025 – Present · 7 mos

Leading Confluent’s reliability and observability engineering organizations, comprising ~70 engineers across customer telemetry products (metrics, operational, and audit logs) and platform-wide reliability initiatives. Focused on building and maintaining customer trust through systemic ownership of reliability, supportability, and operational excellence.

Technical LeadershipCloud ComputingEngineering Management

Director, Cloud Architecture & Reliability

Feb 2023 – Sep 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Director, Observability

Apr 2022 – Feb 2023 · 10 mos

Lacework

Senior Director, Engineering

Feb 2021 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · San Jose, California, United States

Led Lacework's data platform, policy engine, ML / modeling, and security application teams (i.e. the vulnerability scanning capabilities, compliance engine, etc)

Nutanix

Senior Director, Engineering

Mar 2019 – Feb 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos · San Jose, California

Head of engineering for Nutanix' AIOps solution (Nutanix Insights). Nutanix Insights was announced at .NEXT in October 2019 and launched in February 2020.

Ss8 networks

Director of Engineering, Intellego & Fusion

Oct 2018 – Mar 2019 · 5 mos · Milpitas, CA

I led engineering on SS8's next-generation lawful intercept platform supporting targeted surveillance for global government intelligence agencies. SS8 was acquired by Highbar PE.

Nimble storage, acquired by hewlett packard enterprise company in 2017

Director of Engineering, InfoSight

Oct 2014 – Oct 2018 · 4 yrs · San Jose, California

InfoSight was Nimble Storage's flagship cloud analytics platform and a "crown jewel" of the HPE acquisition in 2017, pioneering a number of industry archetypes for AIOps. The product was among the first to use machine learning for proactive/predictive support automation.