Matt Brock
Senior Software Engineer - Core at Teleport
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Brock is a senior software engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable, security-focused backend systems from startups to enterprise products. Currently leading core engineering at Teleport in Austin, he specializes in session management, API design, and distributed system reliability, with hands-on work in a well-known open-source access project (gravitational/teleport). He previously architected Cloud SIEM features at Sumo Logic and built Anaconda’s Nucleus from zero to millions of users, demonstrating strength in cloud-native platforms, observability, and cost-conscious operations. His background spans high-performance security and ML systems, including large-scale data pipelines and endpoint protection model infrastructure. Comfortable across languages (Python, Go, Scala, C/C++) and stacks (Kubernetes, Kafka, AWS), he blends deep technical craft with product-minded architecture. Collected experience in defense and research environments gives him a practical edge in building robust, auditable systems for sensitive and high-throughput use cases.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Tivy HighschoolM.S. Software Engineering, M.S. Software Engineering at Texas State UniversityB.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Texas Lutheran University
Github Skills (12)
golang10
teleport10
kubernetes10
develop10
go10
backend10
kubernetes-pods10
ssh10
security10
api-design9
api9
rbac9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gravitational/teleport
Aug 2024 - Jun 2025
The easiest, and most secure way to access and protect all of your infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:144 reviews, 83 PRs, 404 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on modifying session management and participant control features within the Teleport system, a secure access and infrastructure management tool. Their work involved changes in the `lib/srv/sess.go` and `lib/kube/proxy/sess.go` files, indicating backend development with a focus on enhancing session interaction and control. These commits also included code modifications to the test suite and API, suggesting a strong emphasis on quality assurance and integration.
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mvbrock/top-literary-agents
Dec 2018 - Jul 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 comment in 5 years 8 months
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