[NOMINATION]: 2022 Matt Roberts

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Nomination 🗳️

Nominee Name

Matt Roberts (@mttrbrts)

Nominated By

Dan Selman (@dselman)

Short Personal Bio

Matt is a senior engineering leader at DocuSign and a maintainer of the Accord Project since its founding. Matt was the Director of Engineering at Clause where he led a team to build the first commercial implementation of the Accord Project stack, and influenced the design of key project strategic components such as Cicero, Ergo and the web-components repository.

Matt has a deep background in workflow, document and system automation from IBM as a consultant to hundreds of global companies. Matt holds several patents in this space.

Matt is the administrator for several Accord Project initiatives, such as the internship program (Google Summer of Code & APSoC).

Short Personal Pitch

Matt's experience of the Accord Project's journey so far will help us to avoid repeating mistakes and give historical context for several pending strategic decisions (e.g. #35). Matt believes that to succeed as a project we need to broaden our appeal and accessibility to new audiences (such as into developer communities and the enterprise).