Matthew Stublefield: Product Management Consultant

Product work for Stride and Tallo, its career platform for young people – from rescuing a stalled 80-person team to leading product for career starters, and working out what FERPA and school data privacy agreements mean for a product schools can trust.

Several years leading product and engineering at CoinDesk, the largest crypto news publication. Work ranged from a full-site replatform to revitalizing price pages that once drove the majority of traffic to fixing the Consensus ticket checkout – balancing editorial needs, ad revenue, audience growth, and technical debt.

Seven years deep in the Atlassian ecosystem – designing certification programs, building training products, hosting a podcast, and running large-scale enterprise implementations of Jira, Confluence, and related tools, including an agile pilot for 20,000 consultants at a Big Four firm. All at Adaptavist, the largest Atlassian services provider and one of the oldest Atlassian partners.

Years in university IT managing everything from ERP implementations to computer fleets. This is where I learned that good product thinking applies to internal tools and infrastructure just as much as customer-facing products.

Hands-on work helping small businesses grow through better tools, clearer processes, and practical technology decisions.

Volunteer work for organizations in Springfield, Missouri, where I live. It gets the same approach as client work: find what's keeping people away, then build a system the organization can keep running on its own.