Summary
Mat Miller is a seasoned systems engineer with over 30 years of hands-on experience managing Unix-like systems, networking, and large-scale, geo-distributed cloud and on-prem infrastructure. Based in Virginia, he has supported and led operations across startups and enterprises including AWS, Comcast, VeriSign, and FireEye, with deep practical knowledge of TCP/IP, storage, content delivery, and OpenStack. He excels at mentoring teams, designing resilient authentication and security platforms (Kerberos/PKI), and migrating data centers and complex services under production constraints. Comfortable both as an independent contributor and a shift leader, Mat blends low-level sysadmin craft—shell scripting, performance tuning, automation—with strategic operational design. Notably, his background spans legacy and modern stacks alike, from Solaris and IRIX to cloud-native media and S3/CloudFront ecosystems. He brings a pragmatic, security-first approach to keeping critical systems reliable and scalable.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer