Matt Boersma
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Boersma is a Senior Software Engineer based in Boulder, Colorado with 18 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, particularly around Kubernetes and Azure. At Microsoft and earlier at Deis he has focused on DevOps and backend engineering—improving image build pipelines, AKS tooling, CI/CD, and test infrastructure—to make large-scale cluster management more reliable and automatable. His open-source contributions span high-profile projects such as kubernetes-sigs/image-builder, cluster-api-provider-azure, and the Azure SDK for Python, where he implemented Azure-specific features like accelerated networking and storage lifecycle scripts. Comfortable across scripting, Go and Python, he blends developer-experience improvements (auto-deploy watch flags, better CLI formatters) with deep operational fixes (debugging e2e tests, infrastructure refactors). Quirky and approachable—he even jokes about “fleventyfive”—he pairs a long track record in production systems with a pragmatic focus on observability and developer productivity.
19 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Phillips AcademyBachelor's degree, Public Policy Analysis, Bachelor's degree, Public Policy Analysis at Princeton University
Github Skills (54)
debugging10
kubernetes10
docker10
oracles10
python10
azure-sdk10
django10
testing10
command-line-arguments10
command-line-interface10
bash10
microsoft-azure10
dockers10
cicd10
azure-cli10
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
docopt/docopt.go
Apr 2014 - Jan 2018
A command-line arguments parser that will make you smile.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 22 commits, 9 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Matt focused on enhancing the `docopt.go` library by addressing bugs, improving its usability, and updating the documentation. Their commits primarily involved modifying the code to handle edge cases, such as controlling the `os.Exit` behavior and refactoring the testing suite. Furthermore, the user updated the documentation and examples to reflect API changes, improving the library's usability and maintainability. The user also introduced a CI/CD setup.
command-line-argumentsparser
Azure/aks-engine
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
AKS Engine: legacy tool for Kubernetes on Azure (see status)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:20 releases, 174 reviews, 596 commits in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Matt's contributions focused on modifying and enhancing the core infrastructure components within the AKS Engine project. The user made significant changes to the mock client code related to Azure resources and client libraries. They also worked on the configuration of the control plane components, specifically the API server, by incorporating changes to flags and configurations. The user has also demonstrated familiarity with build processes, as shown through changes to the installation scripts and testing infrastructure.
azurekubernetesdockercontainersorchestration
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