Keith Mattix
Principal Software Engineer Lead at Microsoft
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolKeith Mattix is a senior architect and cloud-native networking specialist with 11 years of experience building and operating service meshes, proxies, and CI/CD systems. Based in Dallas, he has led upstream networking efforts at Microsoft’s Azure Container team and now architects solutions at solo.io, combining deep Istio/Envoy expertise with pragmatic DevOps automation. His open-source contributions to high-profile projects like Envoy and Istio focus on build/release automation, gateway handling, workload discovery, and telemetry—areas that improve reliability at scale. Known for moving between core proxy internals and CI pipelines, he brings a rare blend of back-end systems design and production automation that accelerates delivery for complex microservice environments.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Germantown High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Freed-Hardeman University
Spanish
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Github Skills (37)
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
docker10
envoyproxy10
apidoc10
testing10
ca-api-gateway10
bash10
metadata10
dockers10
cicd10
aws-apigateway10
automation10
amazon-api-gateway10
go10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
openservicemesh/osm
Mar 2022 - Dec 2022
Open Service Mesh (OSM) is a lightweight, extensible, cloud native service mesh that allows users to uniformly manage, secure, and get out-of-the-box observability features for highly dynamic microservice environments.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:558 reviews, 74 commits, 99 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Keith's contributions focus on improving and maintaining the Open Service Mesh (OSM) project. Their work includes decoupling CRD conversion patches, implementing stricter validatingWebhook validations, and adding new fields to the MeshConfig. They have also worked on the ingress verification functionality for the CLI. The user has been involved in features related to the Envoy proxy, specifically related to health probes and integrating with Kafka.
observabilitymicroservicesecuremicroservicesextensible
istio/istio
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
Connect, secure, control, and observe services.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:769 reviews, 1 commit, 104 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Keith primarily contributes to the Istio service mesh by addressing issues related to gateway configurations and functionality. They focused on implementing features for handling gateway APIs, including adding conditions and managing configurations. Additionally, the user worked on fixing issues and improving the handling of traffic, specifically with regard to telemetry, and refining the overall efficiency and stability of the Istio environment.
circuit-breakerenforce-policiesistioapi-managementmicroservice
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