Matt Spilchen

Matt Spilchen is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Cockroach Labs since May 2024, previously holding the position of Principal Software Architect at OpenText from February 2023 to May 2024, focusing on database deployment operations with an emphasis on Kubernetes. As the lead developer of Vertica's Kubernetes operator, Matt initiated this project shortly after joining OpenText in 2021. Prior to this, Matt served as a Senior Systems Software Engineer at Micro Focus from January 2021 to February 2023, also leading the integration of Vertica on Kubernetes. Matt's career began at IBM, where from May 2002 to December 2020, contributions were made to the development of IBM DB2 for Linux/Unix/Windows. Matt holds a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from the University of Guelph, earned between 1998 and 2002.