Matt Sawka
DevOps Engineering Manager at Apple
Gilroy, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Sawka is a DevOps Engineering Manager with 11+ years of hands-on experience architecting and operating cloud-native platforms across AWS and Azure, now leading DevOps at Apple from Gilroy, CA. He blends deep systems programming (C/C++, Erlang/Elixir, Java) with practical platform work—Kubernetes, Jenkins as code, Ansible, CloudFormation—and a track record of building CI/CD and high-availability microservices for SaaS. Matt has repeatedly moved teams from fragile on-prem setups to scalable containerized deployments, including multi-region and Canadian production environments, while mentoring engineers in DevOps best practices. His background spans enterprise and product engineering at PayIt, PeopleAdmin, Lexmark and Cerner, and he brings formal people-skills training (DDI Targeted Selection, Crucial Conversations) to technical leadership. Notably, he has implemented Elixir/Phoenix backends and RabbitMQ-driven distributed build/deploy pipelines—showing both low-level systems chops and operational pragmatism.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS BA Computer Science Russian Studies, BS BA Computer Science Russian Studies at Iowa State University
Github Skills (42)
infrastructure6
mechanism6
vcr6
devops5
ecto5
rest-api5
request-response5
http-request5
ansible5
rest5
scale5
api5
automation5
restful5
kubernetes-cluster5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
msawka/swaggerdoc
Sep 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 7 months
swaggerphoenix-frameworkmix-taskselixirswagger-documentation
OpenAperture/overseer
Apr 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 80 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
mechanismmonitoringsystem-monitoringstandardized
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