Matt Schallert
Distinguished Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Schallert is a Distinguished Software Engineer in Seattle with 15 years of experience building and operating large-scale observability and metrics platforms. He has deep SRE and back-end/DevOps expertise from roles at Uber and Chronosphere and now drives engineering at Palo Alto Networks after Chronosphere's acquisition. Matt is a significant contributor to the open-source M3 project (a widely used distributed TSDB and query engine), adding Kubernetes manifests, docs, and critical fixes that improved usability and operator experience. He has presented operator work at KubeCon and led observability deployments across new regions at Uber, blending hands-on coding with operational leadership. Known for pragmatically reducing user confusion (e.g., sensible defaults like disabling snapshotting) he pairs systems thinking with attention to developer ergonomics. A Carnegie Mellon CS graduate, he brings a mix of infrastructure craftsmanship and practical DevOps intuition to complex production systems.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Packer Collegiate InstituteBachelors of Science Computer Science, Bachelors of Science Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (15)
kubernetes10
develop10
go10
backend10
devops10
kubernetes-pods10
aggregations8
git6
pug6
nodejs6
backbonejs6
filesize6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
carrierwave6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
m3db/m3
Dec 2016 - Sep 2021
M3 monorepo - Distributed TSDB, Aggregator and Query Engine, Prometheus Sidecar, Graphite Compatible, Metrics Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:32 releases, 22 reviews, 173 commits in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Matt contributed to multiple areas within the M3 project. They addressed snapshotting issues by default disabling it to prevent user confusion. They also contributed by adding initial Kubernetes manifests and documentation, showcasing involvement in DevOps and infrastructure. The user further contributed to the M3NSCH agent by integrating the database client configuration.
distributedquerymonorepoquery-enginesidecar
schallert/ci-gate
Jul 2019 - Sep 2021
Buildkite ergonomics for Github pull requests
Contributions:6 PRs, 8 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 2 months
gocdergonomicspull-requestsbuildkitecontinuous-integration
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