Matt Dorn
Senior Manager, Software Engineering at Red Hat
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Dorn is a seasoned software engineering leader with 11 years of cloud-focused experience, currently serving as Senior Manager at Red Hat in San Antonio. He has progressed through technical and managerial roles at Red Hat and CoreOS, blending hands-on engineering, field instruction, and people leadership to help organizations build and operate cloud platforms. His background includes deep OpenStack and OpenShift work—contributing documentation to the official OpenStack manuals and helping configure learning environments for the OpenShift Katacoda portal—demonstrating both technical rigor and a commitment to developer enablement. Matt pairs operator-level DevOps skills (Operator SDK, Ansible, Helm, persistent volumes) with clear technical communication, reflected in book and course authorship and years as a technical instructor. He brings a practical, product-oriented approach to cloud engineering and team development, with a humanities degree that strengthens his emphasis on clear documentation and teaching. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex cloud projects into reproducible workflows and accessible learning resources.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts English & American Literature American Studies, Bachelor of Arts English & American Literature American Studies at University of South Florida
Github Skills (25)
user-manual10
guideline10
bash10
user-guide10
go10
openshift10
installer10
openstack10
postinstall10
operator-sdk10
installers10
documentation10
command-line-interface9
cicd9
ansible9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
openshift-labs/learn-katacoda
Dec 2018 - Aug 2021
The OpenShift learning portal, powered by Katacoda
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 245 commits, 64 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to setting up the environment for the OpenShift learning portal, specifically focusing on the Operator SDK. Their commits involve installing dependencies like Ansible Runner and setting up the GoLang environment. They also made adjustments to scripting files, adding configurations to address specific issues. Further contributions are evident in the addition of persistent volumes and a Helm operator module to the project.
commonsopenshiftportalkuberneteslearning-portal
openstack/openstack-manuals
Aug 2015 - Mar 2017
OpenStack Manuals. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:20 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the OpenStack documentation by updating and adding new sections to the install and user guides. They updated the NTP configuration instructions, specified the source of Ubuntu packages, added instructions for Neutron and Swift CLI commands. Additionally, the user fixed typos and examples in the documentation.
manualsopendevopenstack
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