Matt Burchett
Software Engineer II at DigitalOcean
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Burchett is a Software Engineer II based in St. Louis with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating reliable infrastructure and cloud-native applications. He blends system administration roots—managing RHEL/CentOS, Atlassian stacks, JBoss/Tomcat and automation with Puppet/Ansible/Tower—with modern SRE and DevOps practices, Kubernetes orchestration, Helm and Golang microservices. At Centene and now DigitalOcean he moved from middleware ops into software development and deployment automation, routinely integrating Jenkins, Docker, Rancher and Terraform-adjacent tooling. He also runs his own consultancy, demonstrating an entrepreneurial bent and the ability to deliver end-to-end solutions for diverse customers. Known for pragmatic scripting (Bash, PowerShell, Python, Ruby) and steadily shifting infrastructure work toward software, he brings reliability-first thinking to platform engineering challenges.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School Equivalency, High School Equivalency at Homeschool
English
Github Skills (86)
one-time10
security10
disposable10
hosting10
encryption10
webapp10
aes-encryption10
sqlite10
aes10
php10
privacy10
password-manager10
bcrypt10
proxmox9
encrypt9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
mattburchett/Housekeeper
Jan 2019 - Jun 2025
A Plex cleanup tool that uses Tautulli, Sonarr, and Radarr.
Contributions:2 releases, 7 PRs, 14 pushes in 6 years 5 months
plexpysonarrdockerplex
mattburchett/ansible-role-docker-compose-generator
Aug 2022 - Jan 2026
An Ansible role which procedurally generates docker-compose.yml files
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 3 years 5 months
ansibledockercomposedocker-composeyml
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