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Matt Blair

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Head of Engineering at WorkWhile
📍 Berkeley, California, United States

Matt Blair is a seasoned engineering leader and fractional CTO with over a decade of experience scaling teams and building developer tools at high-growth companies like WorkWhile, Rippling, Rivian, and Slack. He holds a Bachelors in Computer Science from Virginia Tech and is a certified Java programmer. Colleagues describe him as instrumental and a skilled communicator.

Based in Berkeley, Matt is passionate about the JavaScript ecosystem and contributes to open-source projects. He maintains a professional blog where he shares his lessons on engineering management, mentorship, and promoting technical excellence within organizations.

He is the author of a well-known technical guide on the "runner technique" for solving linked-list algorithm problems.

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Experience
6 Years
Current Role
Head of Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Berkeley, California, United States
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Scaling Engineering Teams
His career focuses on growing engineering organizations, having doubled team size at WorkWhile and significantly expanded teams at Rippling and Slack while implementing career ladders.
Developer Tooling
He has a dedicated background in improving developer productivity, including leading the Developer Tooling team at Rivian, which supported over 500 software developers.
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Career

Work history

7-2025
Head of Engineering
WorkWhile
6-2023 - 3-2025
Senior Engineering Manager
Rippling
4-2022 - 6-2023
Senior Engineering Manager, Infrastructure
Rivian
7-2021 - 4-2022
Senior Engineering Manager, Developer Tooling
Rivian
2-2020 - 7-2021
Engineering Manager, Identity & Security
Slack
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Education
1998 - 2002
Bachelors
Virginia Tech
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