Matt Carroll
Incident Detection And Response Tech Lead at Yelp
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Carroll is an Incident Detection and Response Tech Lead at Yelp with 14 years of experience building secure, scalable infrastructure and reducing mean time to remediation. He designs and leads engineering teams that deliver actionable risk visibility, IDS tooling, and automated scanning to prioritize security work across large organizations. A hands-on engineer, Matt frequently leverages eBPF and writes open-source intrusion detection and audit systems, and has contributed backend improvements to the Pixie native Lisp project. His background spans SRE, infrastructure security, and auth/data-access controls, with deep practical experience wrangling HashiCorp Vault and cloud automation. Known for pragmatic technical roadmaps and a founding role in Yelp’s Security Effectiveness team, he blends strategic leadership with kernel-level curiosity and a penchant for building tools from scratch.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MPhys Physics, MPhys Physics at University of Exeter
Github Skills (7)
functional-programming10
lib10
fileio9
file-operations9
filesystem9
lazy-evaluation8
testing7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
pixie-lang/pixie
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
A small, fast, native lisp with "magical" powers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 8 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on enhancing the core functionality of the Pixie language. Their contributions include implementing and refactoring the `iterate` function, adding features like `IReduce`, and integrating standard library functions related to file system operations such as `mkdtemp`, `rmdir`, `mkdir`, and `rm`. The user's work demonstrates a focus on extending the language's capabilities and utility.
lisp
oholiab/zsh
Oct 2015 - May 2026
Contributions:47 pushes, 1 branch in 10 years 8 months
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