Matt Davis
Senior Principal Software Engineer (Ansible Core) at Red Hat
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
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RockstarMatt Davis is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat leading core Ansible development with 11 years of experience focused on automation, Windows integration, and build infrastructure. He has deep hands-on expertise improving Ansible’s Windows modules and PowerShell integration, and has driven performance and async improvements across the project's core and extra modules. As a frequent contributor to notable open-source projects like PyYAML and pywinrm, he has modernized Windows build pipelines, integrated libyaml, and strengthened authentication and certificate validation for WinRM. His background spans senior engineering and architecture roles at startups and enterprises, giving him a strong blend of product-facing solutions architecture and low-level systems work. Based in Beaverton, Oregon, he combines practical DevOps automation with backend engineering rigor to ship reliable cross-platform tooling. A less obvious strength is his knack for untangling platform-specific build and packaging complexities, especially for Windows Python ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
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Github contributions (5)
diyan/pywinrm
Oct 2015 - Jul 2019
Python library for Windows Remote Management (WinRM)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 2 reviews, 70 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Matt significantly contributed to the `pywinrm` library, focusing on enhancing its functionality and security. Their work involved adding features like server certificate validation and improved authentication mechanisms (NTLM, Kerberos). They also addressed performance issues by optimizing authentication headers and improved the codebase by switching to the `requests` library.
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ansible/ansible
Apr 2015 - Dec 2022
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 releases, 552 reviews, 679 commits in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Matt contributed to the core Ansible project, primarily focusing on improving the Windows-related functionalities. Their work involved implementing and enhancing Windows modules and improving the integration of the project with PowerShell. The contributions include fixes for existing modules, and performance enhancements to the Windows platform as part of the overall Ansible suite.
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