About

Matt Blair is a seasoned Senior Engineering Manager with over a decade of professional experience in the analysis, design, and implementation of technology solutions. He is currently serving as the Senior Engineering Manager, Developer Tooling at Rivian, a company that is committed to making the transition to sustainable transportation an exciting one. Matt is a full-stack software manager with a passion for providing leadership and insight to a variety of interesting technical challenges. He has an extensive background in JavaScript and the world around it, which is currently his passion. Matt has a proven track record of success in building and leading high-performing teams, as evidenced by his achievements at Slack and Stripe. At Slack, Matt served as the Engineering Manager, Identity & Security, where he grew a team of engineers from 4 to 7, increased execution on KRs from 30% to 100%, and delivered $30mm+ revenue opportunities through improvements to strategic systems. He also maintained and improved every major P0 and P1 system in his pillar and introduced several innovative technical changes to reduce incident rates and increase reliability of core systems. At Stripe, Matt served as the Engineering Manager, Revenue Platform, where he led a team of 8 engineers around Revenue Automation. He built a team of engineers from 4 to 8, shipped multiple features for billing automation that led to a 10% increase in automated revenue collection, and introduced automation to reduce manual billing by 70%, the leading source of billing errors. Matt also built product roadmaps for multiple projects and developed a core pipeline built with Scala, Scalding, Spark, Ruby, Python, Airflow, and Hadoop. Matt's technical expertise includes Senior Software Engineer, Javascript, Spark, Apache Airflow, Hadoop, Python, Ruby, and Scala. He has 16.87 years of relevant experience and is always looking for new and exciting challenges to tackle.