Matt Mathew
Sr Staff Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolMatt Mathew is a Sr. Staff Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with a decade of experience building and securing large-scale data infrastructure at Uber, where he now focuses on authentication, authorization, secrets management and Zero Trust architecture. He has led multi-year, org-wide programs to containerize and automate data platform deployment, re-architect CI/CD for Hadoop ecosystems, and ship distributed cluster management tooling. An active open-source committer, Matt has contributed backend resilience and policy ingestion features to OpenMetadata and improved Ambari integrations for HAWQ and kerberized clusters, reflecting deep expertise in data governance and secure cluster operations. Comfortable operating at both strategic and implementation levels, he pairs hands-on systems work with cross-team program leadership to align platform delivery with company security strategy. A former CMU Information Systems Management master’s student with practical experience in cloud deployments and automated testing, he brings a blend of academic rigor and production-hardened engineering.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
De Anza CollegeBachelor of Technology (BTech) Electronics & Communication Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Electronics & Communication Engineering at Mahatma Gandhi UniversityMasters Information Systems Management, Masters Information Systems Management at Carnegie Mellon UniversityInnovation and Entrepreneurship Professional Certificate, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Professional Certificate at Stanford University
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Github Skills (21)
data-governance10
python10
back-end-development10
hawq10
rest-api10
metadata-management10
json-schema9
aws-s39
javas8
java8
data-engineering8
postgresql8
encryption6
ambari6
angularjs6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
open-metadata/OpenMetadata
Aug 2021 - Mar 2022
OpenMetadata is a unified metadata platform for data discovery, data observability, and data governance powered by a central metadata repository, in-depth column level lineage, and seamless team collaboration.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:348 reviews, 71 commits, 112 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Matt's commits primarily focused on enhancing the OpenMetadata REST client and adding features related to policies within the system. They implemented exponential backoff mechanisms for the REST client to improve its resilience and added a policy schema, repository, and API resource. The user also contributed to s3 bucket policy ingestion. This involved fixing broken JSON schemas for policies, creating policies during s3 ingestion, and supporting policy rules.
pythondatadata-observabilitycollaboratedata-catalog
apache/ambari
Mar 2016 - Nov 2016
Apache Ambari simplifies provisioning, managing, and monitoring of Apache Hadoop clusters.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 127 commits, 4 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to the `ambari/ambari` repository, focusing on improving HAWQ and PXF functionality. Their work involved updating warning messages within the stack advisor, specifically concerning colocation recommendations and configuration validations for PXF. These updates ensure better deployment and management of services like PXF and HAWQ. Additionally, the user made changes to the service check scripts, focusing on handling kerberized clusters.
provisioningpythonclustersjavascriptapache
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