Matt Moyer
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Summary
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RockstarMatt Moyer is a Security Engineer with 16 years of hands-on experience securing cloud-native systems, currently contributing at Figma after roles at VMware, Heptio, and Simple Finance. Based in Kansas City, he combines deep AWS identity expertise with practical engineering rigor, exemplified by significant contributions to the widely used aws-iam-authenticator project to add IAM user and EC2 role support and temporary credential handling. Matt excels at refactoring and reliable integrations that improve authentication and webhook verification workflows, reducing complexity while increasing robustness. He brings a pragmatic focus on maintainability and operational security, bridging developer needs and production safety in distributed environments.
16 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
kubernetes10
authentication10
user-authentication10
go10
aws10
ias10
kubernetes-pods10
server-configuration9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/aws-iam-authenticator
Aug 2017 - Jun 2018
A tool to use AWS IAM credentials to authenticate to a Kubernetes cluster
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 35 commits, 29 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Matt's primary contribution involves enhancing the functionality of the `aws-iam-authenticator` tool. Their work centers on expanding authentication support to include IAM users and EC2 instance roles, demonstrating a deep understanding of AWS identity management. This is achieved by integrating support for temporary credentials and modifying the token verification process. They have refactored code by shortening constants, and adjusted configurations for the webhook, revealing maintenance and improvement skills.
awskubernetes-clusterkubernetesiamauth
vmware-archive/healthcheck
Sep 2017 - Aug 2018
A library for implementing Kubernetes liveness and readiness probe handlers in your Go application.
Contributions:25 commits, 14 PRs, 5 pushes in 10 months
go-applicationkubernetesreadiness-probehealthcheckliveness
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