Matt Shannon
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at SpaceX
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMatt Shannon is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with nine years of DevOps and SRE experience, currently driving reliability and CI/CD at SpaceX after prior roles at Unity and Global Relay. He blends deep systems and cloud expertise (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible) with strong automation skills in Python, Java, and scripting to deliver idempotent infrastructure, rapid pipelines, and secure secrets/artifact management. He has a track record of creating reproducible build-test-deploy flows, automated security and quality gates, and monitoring/alerting across large-scale environments. Previously he supported PB-scale Hadoop clusters and developer teams at Global Relay, and he brings a rare research-to-production background from a PhD and NASA postdoc in astrophysics. That scientific training shows in his data-driven troubleshooting, careful documentation, and capacity to tackle complex distributed systems problems. Based in Redmond, WA, he combines hands-on engineering with thoughtful process design to help features reliably flow from code to production.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Physics and Astronomy, BSc Physics and Astronomy at University of VictoriaDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Astronomy, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Astronomy at Western University
English
Github Skills (42)
ipython10
multi-user10
jupyter-notebook10
jupyterhub9
scipy9
python9
decompose8
jupyter8
astronomy7
xml7
napalm6
eda5
terraform5
wordpress5
drupal5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mattjshannon/mattpy
Jul 2018 - Feb 2020
Useful tools and convenience functions.
Contributions:23 PRs, 49 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year 7 months
convenience-functionsuseful-toolsconvenience
mattjshannon/pyPAHdb
Mar 2018 - Jun 2019
A Python tool to decompose astronomical PAH emission into contributing PAH subclasses.
Contributions:4 PRs, 94 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year 3 months
decomposepythonastronomyemissionpython-tool
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