Matt Linebarger

EMPOWERING TEAMS IN CUSTOMER SUCCESS, PROFESSIONAL SERVICES, SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEERING, & AUTOMATION
Dallas, Texas · (214) 945-4555 · mlinebarger@gmail.com

As a seasoned leader in Customer Success, Professional Services, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), I bring over a decade of experience driving technical teams to deliver results. I build teams that align technical innovation with customer impact, ensuring operational excellence. With expertise in IT operations/engineering and customer success, I empower teams to solve challenges, streamline processes, and drive growth. I thrive on fostering collaboration and continuous improvement to help teams and customers reach their full potential.


Experience

Director, Technical Delivery

PagerDuty
San Francisco, CA
  • Lead a global organization of post-sales technical teams, driving customer impact through Professional Services, Technical Account Managers, and Customer Success Engineers.
  • Spearhead customer success initiatives, consistently delivering value to Enterprise and Commercial customers during PagerDuty implementations.
  • Enhance cross-functional collaboration by leveraging global awareness to work effectively with Product, CSMs, and other teams.
  • Streamline feature request workflows, providing workarounds for 60% of customer-submitted ideas, improving efficiency for CSMs and Product teams.
  • Implement solutions for customer feature requests, reducing turnaround time and increasing satisfaction with Product team engagement.
  • Elevate the customer value proposition by integrating Customer Success Engineering services into Premium Support, creating new revenue-generating opportunities.
  • Drive operational improvements and strategic growth by aligning Customer Success Engineering efforts with business objectives, fostering continuous innovation.
October 2024 - Present

Sr. Manager, Customer Success Engineering

PagerDuty
San Francisco, CA
  • Built the customer success organization from the ground up as the team centralized.
  • Led a globally distributed team of customer success engineers.
  • Automated CSE processes using Workflow Automation, saving over 125 hours of manual work.
  • Cross-trained the CSE team to become the first technical field team to support both PagerDuty Incident Management and Automation products.
  • Achieved an overall score of 93% (18% higher than company average) and a management score of 100% (10% higher than company average) in the FY24 Annual Engagement Survey.
March 2022 - October 2024

Sr. Customer Success Engineer

PagerDuty
San Francisco, CA
  • Led discovery sessions with customers to assess and analyze inefficiencies in existing tooling, processes, and operations within and outside of PagerDuty.
  • Consulted on the design of custom integrations using product, APIs, and best practice knowledge.
  • Answered and triaged technical questions as the primary technical point of contact for customers.
  • Collaborated with Customer Success Managers as the primary technical contact, supporting large-scale onboardings and general customer lifecycle initiatives.
March 2021 - March 2022

Assistant Vice President, SRE & Cloud Engineering

Texas Capital Bank
Richardson, TX
  • Led cloud transformation for the bank, implementing governance and security policies through an automated self-service approach.
  • Introduced Infrastructure as Code using Ansible and Terraform.
  • Identified and implemented cost-saving opportunities in the cloud, reducing monthly spend by 40%.
  • Rolled out Site Reliability Engineering practices across multiple technologies and business teams.
  • Delivered application monitoring across numerous tier 1 services, increasing reliability and visibility.
December 2019 - March 2021

Sr. Manager, SRE & Cloud Engineering

7-Eleven
Irving, TX
  • Implemented the organization’s first Site Reliability Engineering team.
  • Led cloud architecture and served as design authority for cloud migration from multiple datacenters to Microsoft Azure and AWS.
  • Managed a team of developers to create Infrastructure as Code, automating all infrastructure activities using ServiceNow, Ansible, PowerShell, and Python.
  • Rolled out New Relic as the enterprise monitoring solution to provide deeper insight into the organization’s critical applications.
July 2018 - December 2019

Sr. Manager, Cloud Engineering & Infrastructure Apps

Vistra Energy
Irving, TX
  • Managed and led both onshore and offshore Cloud Engineering & Infrastructure Apps teams.
  • Oversaw automation and DevOps strategies through the implementation and operation of monitoring (New Relic/CloudWatch), configuration management (Chef/AWS), and version control systems (GitLab/GitHub).
  • Led the DevOps and public cloud transformation of one of Vistra’s retail websites, resulting in a 75% decrease in infrastructure OpEx costs and a 200% reduction in release time.
  • Reduced $3.2 million in OpEx spend by leveraging a CapEx greenfield upgrade of ServiceNow.
November 2016 - July 2018

Sr. Architect, DevOps/Automation/Infrastructure Apps

Vistra Energy
Irving, TX
  • Developed real-time dashboards and web applications for desktop and mobile, used by executives and business units for performance monitoring and reporting.
  • Built a custom application solution to automate the validation and uptime of core DevOps applications.
  • Automated senior IT leadership reports and analytics through a custom-developed web portal.
  • Served as lead administrator and architect of New Relic, monitoring the internal performance of critical applications across multiple business units.
  • Significantly improved infrastructure monitoring quality by tuning alerts and reducing false positives.
June 2012 - November 2016

Education

Colorado Technical University

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
  • Concentration in Information Technology
  • Graduated Summa Cum Laude

Skills

Customer Success Leadership
  • Customer Success Strategy
  • Customer Advocacy
  • Stakeholder Communication
  • Customer Journey Mapping
  • Mentorship & Coaching
Technical Expertise
  • Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
  • Incident Management – Tools: PagerDuty, ServiceNow
  • Workflow Automation – Tools: Terraform, Ansible, Zapier
  • Cloud Platforms – AWS, Azure, GCP
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC) – Terraform, Ansible
  • Monitoring & Observability – New Relic, Datadog, Prometheus
Programming & Scripting Languages
  • Python – API integration, automation, data analysis
  • JavaScript – Web solutions and dashboards
  • SQL – Data extraction and analysis
  • Bash/Shell Scripting – DevOps and infrastructure tasks
Data & Analytics
  • Customer Data Analysis
  • KPI Development & Tracking
  • Root Cause Analysis


Awards

  • PagerDuty Hackweek • Best Product Enhancement (April 2022)
  • PagerDuty Leadership Development Certificate Program • Green Shield (Issued September 2022)
  • PagerDuty Leadership Development Certificate Program • Yellow Shield (Issued March 2023)
  • PagerDuty Leadership Development Certificate Program • Gray Shield (Issued June 2023)