Matt Haedo
Enterprise Solution Architect at Xerox
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Haedo is an Enterprise Solution Architect with 11 years of experience designing and selling complex network, security, and infrastructure solutions for large accounts, now leading presales architecture at Xerox after ITsavvy's acquisition. He specializes in SD-Access, SD-WAN, SSE/SASE and multi-vendor environments spanning Cisco, Palo Alto, Juniper, Meraki, Aruba and others, translating technical strategy into revenue-driving deployments. Comfortable across network, wireless, and security design, he blends field engineering roots with senior presales leadership to scope and deliver high-value, vendor-agnostic solutions. An active open-source contributor, he has hands-on scripting experience synchronizing Pi-hole DNS configs and has contributed full‑stack fixes to Mastodon, showing a practical appetite for tooling and community projects beyond enterprise engagements. Based in Kansas City, he pairs a pragmatic implementation mindset with a strategic, sales-aligned approach to solve sticky operational problems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Cisco Networking Technologies, Cisco Networking Technologies at Cisco Networking AcademyInformation Technology - Security, Information Technology - Security at Western Governors University
Github Skills (28)
javascript10
bash10
ruby10
pihole10
dns10
web-development10
rails9
ruby-on-rails9
rsync9
replication9
elasticsearch8
elasticsearch-api8
react8
elasticsearchquery8
aws-elasticsearch8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
vmstan/gravity-sync
May 2020 - May 2022
💫 The easy way to synchronize the DNS configuration of two Pi-hole 5.x instances.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:84 releases, 6 reviews, 638 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the `gravity-sync` project by implementing and modifying a shell script (`gravity-sync.sh`) designed to synchronize DNS configurations. Their work included developing the core functionality for pulling and pushing DNS configurations between Pi-hole instances, including adding checks for backup directories and custom list entries. The user also added features for logging task execution and implementing update mechanisms within the script and built several support functions for this purpose.
instancesraspberry-pidnspi-holesynchronize
mastodon/mastodon
Oct 2022 - Mar 2025
Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:79 reviews, 106 PRs, 721 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Matt contributed to various aspects of the Mastodon project, including front-end and back-end components. Their work involved fixing bugs in the UI (e.g., retention dashboard and browser window color), enhancing the admin dashboard with features like Elasticsearch index size and version information, and refactoring code for efficiency. They also addressed infrastructure-related issues, such as Yarn versioning in the development container and improved attachment batch deletion.
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