Co-founder at Akuity · GitOps & Platform Engineering

Alexander Matyushentsev

Co-creator of Argo CD  ·  Co-founder at Akuity  ·  Author

I co-created Argo CD back when GitOps wasn't even a word most people used. Didn't expect it to take off the way it did. Built Akuity on top of that — co-founded it with two partners to turn what the community built into something companies could rely on in production.

40K+ GitHub Stars
12+ KubeCon Talks
1 Book Published
Get in touch → LinkedIn → GitHub → X →
Alexander Matyushentsev
▸ CURRENT ROLE Co-founder & Chief Architect, Akuity
Argo CD Co-Creator 22.5K Stars on Argo CD CNCF Graduated Project KubeCon Speaker GitOps & Platform Engineering Co-founder at Akuity Manning Author Argo Workflows Co-Creator Open Source Believer 20 Years in Engineering Argo CD Co-Creator 22.5K Stars on Argo CD CNCF Graduated Project KubeCon Speaker GitOps & Platform Engineering Co-founder at Akuity Manning Author Argo Workflows Co-Creator Open Source Believer 20 Years in Engineering
OPEN SOURCE

Building tools
the community ships on

Core contributor and co-creator across the Argo project ecosystem — used by thousands of companies running Kubernetes in production.

ARGO CD
▸ CO-CREATOR & LEAD MAINTAINER
★ 22.5K

Declarative GitOps continuous delivery for Kubernetes. CNCF graduated project and the industry standard for GitOps deployments.

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ARGO WORKFLOWS
▸ CO-CREATOR
★ 16.6K

Container-native workflow engine for Kubernetes. The most popular workflow execution engine in the cloud-native ecosystem.

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ARGO ROLLOUTS
▸ CONTRIBUTOR
★ 3.4K

Progressive delivery controller for Kubernetes. Supports blue/green, canary, and advanced rollout strategies with traffic management.

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NOTIFICATIONS ENGINE
▸ CREATOR
★ 326

Configuration-driven notification library for cloud-native applications. Powers alerting in Argo CD and Argo Rollouts across Slack, Teams, PagerDuty and more.

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PUBLISHED BOOK

GitOps and
Kubernetes

▸ MANNING PUBLICATIONS
GitOps and Kubernetes

Continuous Deployment with Argo CD, Jenkins X, and Flux. A comprehensive guide to implementing GitOps practices at scale, written from the perspective of the engineers who built the tools.

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What it covers A practitioner's guide to GitOps — from Argo CD fundamentals to production deployment patterns, progressive delivery, and building a platform engineering practice on top of Kubernetes.
Who it's for Platform engineers, DevOps teams, and architects who want to move beyond ad-hoc deployments and build a reliable, auditable delivery system.
Publisher Manning Publications, 2021
WRITING

Writing

GitOps, platform engineering, and open-source — from the perspective of someone who built the tools.

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TALKS & APPEARANCES

KubeCon &
beyond

Regular speaker at KubeCon, ArgoCon, and cloud-native events. Sharing what I learn building Argo and operating it at scale.

01
ArgoCon EU | Argo CD Update
ArgoCon Europe · 2026
→ 02
Offline, Not Off-Limits: Edge Fleet Management With Argo CD
KubeCon North America · 2025
→ 03
Mastering Efficiency in Argo CD: Scaling Smarter, Not Costlier
KubeCon Europe · 2025
→ 04
Mastering ApplicationSet: Advanced Argo CD Automation
KubeCon North America · 2024
→ 05
Argo CD Core — A Pure GitOps Agent for Kubernetes
KubeCon Europe · 2023
→ 06
Supercharging Argo CD's Manifest Generation Capabilities
KubeCon North America · 2022
→ 07
How To Build a Production Grade DevOps Platform
KubeCon Europe · 2022
→ 08
The Argo Ecosystem: Tailoring Your Installation Through Community
ArgoCon · 2021
→ 09
Easy Notifications for Kubernetes
KubeCon North America · 2021
→ 10
Tutorial: Everything You Need To Become a GitOps Ninja
KubeCon North America · 2019  ·  18K views
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EXPERIENCE

20 years building
things that scale

2022 — PRESENT
Co-founder & Chief Architect
Akuity

Building the enterprise GitOps platform on top of Argo CD and Kargo. Leading product architecture and engineering, customer production deployments, and the AI agent layer (Akuity Intelligence).

2018 — 2022
Principal Software Engineer
Intuit

Core engineer on Argo CD and Argo Rollouts. Ran Argo CD as a service for hundreds of developers at Intuit, powering 1,000+ deployments daily. Led GitOps adoption company-wide.

Led development of Argo CD — now the industry standard for GitOps on Kubernetes Onboarded the first team at Intuit to Argo CD and drove widespread adoption Contributed to Argo CD's growth outside Intuit into the broader cloud-native community
2016 — 2018
Member of Technical Staff
Applatix (acquired by Intuit)

Early engineer on what became the Argo project. Prototyped the lightweight workflow engine design that became Argo Workflows. Led Argo v1/v2 UI development.

Prototyped the workflow engine architecture behind Argo Workflows Led Argo v1 and v2 UI development from scratch
2011 — 2016
Senior Software Engineer
EPAM Systems / First Rain / Ooyala

Contributed to DoubleClick Data Platform (Google/EPAM), sales intelligence APIs (First Rain), and content management systems (Ooyala). Built engineering experience across Java, Go, and distributed systems.