Matt Franz
Cloud AI security leader bridging SecOps, cloud, and AI
Washington DC-Baltimore Area, United States
Summary
Cloud AI security leader with broad SecOps and platform experience: Matt blends hands-on cloud and observability engineering with security operations to help organizations build secure, scalable cloud-native and AI-enabled services. getprog+1
Practical, hands-on technologist who oscillates between IC and management: He has written about moving between engineering and management roles, intentionally returning to IC work to regain deep technical fluency and then applying those lessons when leading teams. mdfranz+1
Active open-source contributor and tooling-focused engineer: Maintains public repositories and gists (e.g., Matano scripts, Vector/OpenSearch configs) used for security data pipelines and tooling automation. github+1
Public communicator and community speaker: Publishes technical and career-focused writing on Medium and his blog and delivers talks (e.g., DevOps Columbia) about the intersection of DevOps, SecOps, and LLM/AI operations. medium+2
Work
Education
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Writing
2025 Tech Learning in Review
January 1, 2026Personal review of technologies, tools, and learning highlights from 2025 across Python, AI, observability, networking, DevOps, and security.
Manager to IC Pendulum Redux (a 90 day readout)
July 1, 2024A reflective essay on choosing between individual contributor and management roles, lessons learned returning to IC work, and how that experience shaped later leadership.
Build a Low Cost Serverless Linux SIEM with Vector, S3, and ClickHouse (Local)
Technical how-to on using Vector, S3, and ClickHouse to build a low-cost serverless Linux SIEM.