Matt Michie
Founding Engineer at Tensor9
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Michie is a founding engineer and seasoned Site Reliability Engineer with 20 years building highly available, scalable, and secure systems across e-commerce, ride-hailing, social media, and cloud platforms. He’s led SRE teams from early-stage ops at Amazon and Uber to production engineering at Meta, driving incident response, capacity planning, and long-lived automation still in use years later. As a serial founder he’s turned operational experience into products—co-founding Steelcut to simplify incident management and currently building privacy-conscious tooling at Tensor9. Known for mentoring teams and codifying best practices, he pairs hands-on systems work (Python, Go, AWS, Postgres) with product instincts and a knack for simplifying complex outages. Based in Seattle, he brings entrepreneurial grit and deep institutional knowledge of Tier-0 services and warm storage infrastructure that many teams rely on behind the scenes.
20 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at New Mexico State University
Github Skills (29)
gambling10
blackjack10
monitoring9
simulation9
security9
instrumentation9
sql9
intrusion-detection9
operating-system8
python7
analytics6
analyzer5
daemon4
java4
automation3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mmichie/fishjelly
May 2006 - Oct 2008
Contributions:53 commits, 26 pushes in 2 years 5 months
hivearchive/steelcut
Sep 2023 - Jan 2025
SteelCut is a robust Unix host management library tailored for precision and efficiency. Dive into functionalities including SSH handling, file operations, command execution, package control, state management, and specialized modules for Linux and MacOS. Your go-to solution for seamless system management and orchestration.
Contributions:1 release, 12 PRs, 110 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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