Summary
Matt Hoover is a Senior Platform Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building and automating release and platform tooling for large engineering organizations. Currently at Sony Interactive Entertainment, he specializes in CLI-first tooling, baremetal image build/deploy pipelines, and observability stacks (Prometheus/fluentd) to improve operational efficiency and network performance. His background spans DevOps and release engineering at Cisco and manufacturing-focused infrastructure and test automation at Toshiba, giving him deep expertise in CI/CD, Jenkins/Docker pipelines, and cross-language troubleshooting (C/C++, Java, Python, shell). Comfortable in small autonomous teams, he consistently delivers clean, testable, well-documented automation that reduces toil—an approach informed by earlier work in embedded Yocto/U-Boot manufacturing flows and even experimental fluid dynamics research.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, M.S., Mechanical Engineering at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
B.S., Applied Physics, B.S., Applied Physics at University of North Carolina at Pembroke