Matt Ferris
Solution Architect at NetApp
Greater St. Louis United States
Summary
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SeniorMatt Ferris is a Solution Architect with over two decades of hands-on experience in systems architecture and data storage management, currently focused on NetApp hybrid cloud and emerging storage technologies. He advises sales, engineering teams, and partners on designing scalable data management solutions that leverage NVMe, NVMe-oF, flash, and AI/ML workloads while addressing replication, backup, and monitoring needs. His background spans engineering and technical leadership roles at NetApp, Freescale, Sun Microsystems, and Motorola, giving him deep cross-vendor expertise across Linux, UNIX, and Windows hosts. Known for translating complex storage challenges into practical architectures, he combines product-facing presentation skills with detailed design and implementation experience. Based in Greater St. Louis, he brings a pragmatic, customer-centric approach to integrating cutting-edge storage tech into enterprise environments. An underappreciated strength is his long tenure bridging field engineering and product strategy, helping customers adopt new storage paradigms with minimal disruption.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (8)
iptables8
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mattferris/events
May 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
mattferris/http-routing
May 2015 - Feb 2020
Contributions:4 releases, 41 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 9 months
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