# CV — Matt Nigh

> Fourteen years operating engineering organizations — Principal TPM at General Motors,
> Chief of Staff and AI program lead at GitHub, prior leadership at UW Medicine and Vanick Digital.

## About

Fourteen years at the *operating* table of engineering.

I've spent **14 years helping engineering organizations run better**, from a 50-person software company through acquisition to GitHub and now General Motors.

I've led **DevEx, AI adoption, planning, and operating cadence** across teams with very different constraints, including GitHub, where I worked in an engineering organization behind products used by **more than 150 million developers**.

I'm best at **getting engineering, product, security, and leadership aligned** so decisions turn into actual execution.

## Career timeline

### § 01 · 2026 — Present — General Motors
**Principal Technical Program Manager, Developer Experience**
Strategic partner to the Director of Developer Experience, driving GM's enterprise DevOps transformation across thousands of engineers. Operationalizing GitHub Enterprise adoption, AI coding assistants, and Policy-as-Code governance; brokering identity/access across Cyber, Legal and Engineering; standing up the DORA/SPACE framework for measuring developer productivity.

### § 02 · 2022 — 2026 — GitHub
**Program Manager Director, AI · Chief of Staff + Technical Business Operations Manager**
Led GitHub's company-wide AI enablement work, then served as Acting Chief of Staff for Platform & Enterprise — driving org-wide operating rhythm, strategic planning, headcount analysis, internship and hiring programs, and the internal AI adoption efforts that scaled across the company.

  - **Program Manager Director, AI** _(2025 — 2026)_ — Led GitHub's company-wide AI enablement program to scale internal adoption, usage, and fluency; built the AI Advocates community, drove cross-functional strategy with senior stakeholders, and authored internal playbooks and metrics for an AI-powered workforce.
  - **Chief of Staff + Technical Business Operations Manager** _(2022 — 2025)_ — Acting Chief of Staff for Platform & Enterprise, managing P&E-wide business operations for a 600+ person org; co-authored FY strategies, led cadence and planning, and owned flagship programs including the Internship Program, Engineering Hiring Pipelines, and Director Guidelines.

### § 03 · 2020 — 2022 — UW Medicine
**Data Engineering Manager · PMO Manager**
Led data and program teams through the peak of the pandemic — owning COVID data pipelines, weekly C-suite briefings, and a mission-critical data warehouse used across UW Medicine Analytics.

  - **Data Engineering Manager** _(2021 — 2022)_ — Managed 14 engineers across research and clinical data pipelines, owned DAWG as Product Owner, ran weekly C-level briefings on COVID reporting.
  - **PMO Manager** _(2020 — 2021)_ — Managed 8 TPMs across data, infra and software programs; TPM for DAWG; trained ~40 PMO members on Prosci's ADKAR change methodology.

### § 04 · 2014 — 2019 — Vanick Digital
**President · VP of Operations (through acquisition by Concentrix Catalyst)**
Ran Vanick's software development practice of ~50 people — managed the P&L, restructured engineering to boost profitability by 75%, and guided the company through acquisition in 2019.

  - **President & VP of Operations** _(2017 — 2019)_ — Led the 50-person software practice "Fifty-Seven Pounds"; owned P&L, renegotiated key client contracts, steered the acquisition.
  - **Director of Software Development** _(2015 — 2016)_ — Oversaw 25+ staff; led strategic decisions on $500k+ contracts and architected multi-million-dollar engagements.
  - **Manager of DevOps** _(2015)_ — Managed 4 engineers supporting customer software + internal tooling; rolled out the Atlassian suite company-wide.
  - **Project Manager** _(2014 — 2015)_ — TPM for a Fortune-100 digital transformation program (12 projects) preparing enterprise data for a major e-commerce launch.

### § 05 · 2012 — 2014 — Franklin American Mortgage
**Project Coordination and Build Manager**
Scrum Master for a 12-person cross-functional product team; directly managed two developers responsible for the mortgage platform's rules engine.

### § 06 · 2012 — Consensus Point
**Relationship Manager**
Technical sales — explained platform capabilities, integration options (primarily LDAP), and reporting functionality on client calls.