Matt Long
Retired at Retired - Microsoft
Germantown, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Long is a retired Principal Software Engineer with 11 years at Microsoft and a multi-decade background bridging civil engineering, finance, and distributed systems. He led Azure-focused architecture and IoT initiatives, helped scale Microsoft’s Azure Center of Excellence, and drove security and authorization work such as the CAPL specification. Known for hands-on cloud engineering, he contributed Azure-specific testing to the popular Terratest Go library and delivered live near-space telemetry from a high-altitude balloon demonstration. Comfortable translating research into production, he partnered with GISVs and health research teams on the Health NeXt platform before retiring. His career blends deep systems design, field-facing solution delivery, and a practical curiosity that ranges from hydrology to high-altitude sensor networks.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BSCE, Civil Engineering, Math, Hydrology, Numerical Methods, BSCE, Civil Engineering, Math, Hydrology, Numerical Methods at University of MississippiPhysics, Computer Science, Physics, Computer Science at LSU
Github Skills (8)
terraformer10
testing-library10
azure10
go10
microsoft-azure10
devops10
terraform10
testing10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gruntwork-io/terratest
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
Terratest is a Go library that makes it easier to write automated tests for your infrastructure code.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:33 commits, 2 comments, 5 issues in 21 days
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the Azure-specific testing modules within the Terratest library. Their commits focused on implementing and refining tests for Azure resource groups. They updated existing unit tests, refactored test code, and modified test names to align with changes in the underlying infrastructure code. These changes included adding Azure-specific testing capabilities and ensuring the test suite's continued functionality.
automated-testsgoterratestdevopstesting
rguthriemsft/terratest
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
Terratest is a Go library that makes it easier to write automated tests for your infrastructure code.
Contributions:98 commits in 25 days
automated-testsgoterratest
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