Matt Valdez is a Principal Engineer at Public Library of Science. He possess expertise in integration, cloud computing, agile methodologies, software development, linux and 42 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "I got to meet Matt right after I joined Nitro in 2016 and he instantly stood out as a great engineering leader and inspiring person to talk with. Half of year later, I was looking for a change and he was more than happy to place his trust in me and welcome me to his team. He motivated me to pursue some of the most challenging projects I have ever worked on and supported me to deliver them. Matt is one of those few people who stand out instantly and he isn't afraid to trust his employees to get a job done. His wealth of knowledge about distributed systems and microservice architectures combined with his interpersonal skills enable him to lead any software engineering organisation. I'd love to work with Matt again in the future and I'm looking forward to hearing about his future accomplishments." and "Matt and myself have worked together for 3 years (at Nitro). The amount of change he has introduced and implemented in these 3 years is unbelievable (to use one of his phrases: Going from zero to hero (in a day :))). I have seen him stepping up (over and over again), when it was (most) needed. As a people manager and as a leader and as builder of good engineering teams (and good engineering culture). He has huge antennas for what is happening around him and why it is happening. If you are building/running a distributed engineering organisation and you need somebody to build and hold a site together ... he is your man!!! "