Matt Stam
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Stam is a senior backend and distributed-systems engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and platform services. He shipped core networking features for Azure Kubernetes Service at Microsoft and later joined Succinct as the third employee, where he designed and implemented the platform infrastructure for a distributed compute network. Primarily focused on backend services, cloud infrastructure, and platform engineering, he also operates full-stack when projects demand it. His open-source contributions include automation and CNI-related work in Azure/AgentBaker, reflecting deep practical knowledge of Kubernetes node provisioning and network plugin integration. Based in San Francisco, he combines startup agility with enterprise-grade engineering discipline to deliver resilient, scalable systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Illinois State University
Github Skills (15)
cni10
automation10
kubernetes10
docker10
automations10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods10
cloud-init9
bash9
go8
agent8
github-ci8
githubaction-workflow8
vhd8
vhdx8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/AgentBaker
Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
Agent Baker is aiming to provide a centralized, portable k8s agent node provisioning lib as well as rich support on different OS image with optimized k8s binaries.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:66 reviews, 25 commits, 58 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to automating and configuring Kubernetes agent nodes. Their work involved modifying scripts and configurations related to CNI (Container Network Interface) plugins, specifically addressing issues with network plugins like Azure CNI and integrating with the 'none' CNI option. They updated dependencies such as Calico and CNI plugins. The user also automated aspects of the build process, including dependency management and deployment, as evidenced by changes to packer scripts and VHD configurations.
k8sprovisioningagentvhdos
git-consensus/contracts
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
Converts the informal ownership structure of an open-source git project to a formal DAO, with token distribution mechanisms for contributors.
Contributions:30 reviews, 44 commits, 24 PRs in 2 months
daoconsensusethereumsoliditycontracts
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