Matt Richins

CTO APJ Development at Rackspace Technology

Corona, California, United States

About Matt Richins

Matt Richins is CTO APJ Development at Rackspace Technology. Location: Corona, California, United States.

With over three decades of experience as a technical leader and solutions architect, I excel at making complex engineering realities work and at executing on business strategy. My career spans from legacy server architectures to modern, high-performance cloud environments and Machine Learning infrastructure. I excel at navigating enterprise bureaucracy while balancing technical, compliance, and cultural requirements to optimize workflows and drive concrete business outcomes. Aligning top-level corporate goals to lower-level operations is hard and I am great at it. My leadership style is adaptive and inclusive. I specialize in knowing when to be hands-on, how to listen, when to coach, how to get out of the way of talent, and how to elevate every voice on a team. As a bilingual (English/Spanish) leader, I have directed technical strategy and cross-regional operations across North America, LATAM, EMEA, APJ, and the Middle East. I build performance-driven cultures by hiring top talent, mentoring engineering teams, and owning the customer experience from pre-sales through global deployment. In every engagement; whether modernizing legacy systems, scoping large scale professional services, or delivering training for international services providers I focus on consultative architecture. My goal is always to design scalable solutions that solve for needs and result in business enhancing outcomes. Core Technical & Strategic Competencies: ∞Strategic Leadership: Technical Pre-Sales, IT Modernization Strategy, Global Cross-Cultural Team Integration, Bilingual (English/Spanish). ∞Cloud & Infrastructure: Cloud Solutions Architecture, Hybrid Deployments, Disaster Recovery, Application & Business Policy Design. ∞Modern Workloads: ML/Agentic AI Infrastructure, Container Orchestration (Kubernetes), Distributed Storage, Hyperscaler Operations, OpenStack. ∞Enterprise Ecosystems: Legacy-to-Cloud Modernization, Cisco, VMware, EMC, IBM, HP, Oracle. ∞Top 10 Gallup Strengths: Achiever, Responsibility, Arranger, Learner, Includer, Belief, Positivity, Individualization, Developer, Harmony.

Skills

  • Technology Management
  • Information Technology Infrastructure
  • Director level

Additional experience

  • Senior Director Cloud Solutions Architects

    Rackspace Technology

    March 2013 – November 2023

Education

  • Bachelor of Science (BS), Cal State Fullerton, College of Business and Economics