Mathias Gug
Staff Software Engineer, DevOps at insitro
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMathias Gug is a Staff Software Engineer specializing in DevOps and open source server technologies, with 13 years of experience designing and automating reliable cloud and infrastructure platforms. Based in San Francisco, he has led infrastructure teams at Lyft—building from AWS account provisioning to thousands of EC2 instances for self-driving AI workloads—and now drives DevOps at insitro. He combines deep hands-on expertise across OSS stacks (Ubuntu server, LAMP, Puppet/Chef/Ansible, Terraform) with a product-minded focus on usability and developer experience. An active open-source integrator, he improved build and packaging for the widely used OSRM routing backend, adding Debian/RPM packaging and runtime hardening like SO_REUSEPORT. Known for championing “you build it, you run it,” Mathias blends operational rigor with pragmatic automation to help agile teams ship resilient systems.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Diplome d'ingénieur, Computer Science, Diplome d'ingénieur, Computer Science at École Supérieure d'ÉlectricitéMathematics, Mathematics at Lycée Kléber
French, English, German
Github Skills (9)
c-language10
cmake10
deb10
cprogramming-language10
devops10
build-automation10
networking8
routes7
routing-slip7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Project-OSRM/osrm-backend
Jan 2016 - Jan 2017
Open Source Routing Machine - C++ backend
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:19 commits, 9 PRs, 9 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Mathias focused on improving the build and deployment process for the project. Their contributions included implementing support for Debian and RPM package creation, incorporating environment variables for configuration, and adding support for the `SO_REUSEPORT` socket option to allow for multiple server instances on the same port. They also fixed build issues, enhanced logging, and ensured correct handling of upgrades for the Debian packages.
backendcpposrmc-plus-plusrouting
lyft/heroku-buildpack-php
Jan 2013 - Jun 2013
Contributions:64 commits in 5 months
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