Matt Merkes
Principal Member Of Technical Staff at Oracle
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Merkes is a Principal-level engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating high-availability, distributed systems across startups and AWS, now driving performance work at Oracle OCI. He blends a builder’s hands-on mentality—rooted in a lifelong affinity for construction and tinkering—with deep cloud and DevOps expertise, having contributed to Amazon EKS infrastructure and AMI tooling that ensure Kubernetes compatibility and runtime stability. Polyglot and pragmatic, he ships in JavaScript, Java, and Ruby and is conversant in Go, Rust, C, and Bash, with solid Kubernetes and container experience. Known as a thoughtful code reviewer and architectural whiteboarder, he pushes teams toward customer-focused, automatable solutions. His background in education administration and grant management gives him unusual strength in cross-functional communication and compliance-minded design.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSE English Education, BSE English Education at University of Wisconsin-WhitewaterSpecial Student (no degree) Economics & Calculus, Special Student (no degree) Economics & Calculus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Arabic, French, Spanish
Github Skills (15)
amazon-eks10
kubernetes10
containerd10
bash10
aws10
devops10
kubernetes-pods10
scripting9
infrastructure-as-code9
cloud-infrastructure9
shell9
script9
sh9
docker8
dockers8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
awslabs/amazon-eks-ami
Nov 2020 - Nov 2022
Packer configuration for building a custom EKS AMI
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:10 releases, 238 reviews, 38 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Matt primarily focused on modifying and maintaining the infrastructure build process for the Amazon EKS AMI. Their contributions included downgrading and reverting containerd versions, configuring the Linux kernel, adding validation checks, and updating the bootstrap script for container runtime defaults. Furthermore, the user updated the ECR URI retrieval script and EKS credential provider configurations to align with the latest releases. These changes suggest an emphasis on automation, configuration management, and ensuring compatibility with evolving Kubernetes versions.
ekspackeramikubernetesaws
mmerkes/dot-files
Mar 2017 - Apr 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
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