About the Author
Matt Ryan
Matt Ryan is a seasoned software engineer in Utah with almost 15 years of industry experience. He graduated from Utah State University in 1997 with a degree in Computer Science while simultaneously working full-time as a software engineer for Spillman Technologies. After graduating, Matt worked two years at IBM in Boulder, Colorado, after which he left for an opportunity at Novell in Utah. He spent many years at Novell and played a key part in the proposal of Novell Forge and in Novell's open source transition. He also was a contributing member of Novell's Software Development Community of Practice and blogged regularly there about software development, particularly agile and scrum methodologies and philosophy. After several years at Novell, he spent a year at Mozy and is now employed by Microsoft at their new Utah Development Center.
Matt has delivered production code in C, C++, C#, Perl, PHP, Python, and Java for Windows, Mac, and Linux working on web applications, cloud applications, rich clients, and back-end systems for small, large, early-stage and mature software companies. His breadth of experience gives him a very measured and even approach to the software industry and to software development. Interests include software development methodology and process, cloud technologies, virtualization, systems monitoring and management, and software as a service.
Matt loves watching and attending select racing events (Formula One, World Superbike, AMA Supercross), playing his guitars, and driving his Nissan 350Z. He blogs fairly regularly about these and other topics on his personal blog.
Matt currently works for Microsoft. Content authored by Matt does not represent the opinion of any current or former employer.
