Matt Thornback
DevOps Engineer at Palitronica Inc.
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMatt Thornback is a DevOps engineer with a decade of hands-on experience designing and operating Unix-centric infrastructure and cloud-native platforms from Waterloo, Ontario. He combines a Unix Philosophy mindset with practical expertise in Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Chef, Ansible and container migrations—having led teams that moved microservices from VMs to Kubernetes and managed production deployments at scale. His background spans large enterprise environments (OpenText, Sun Life) and managed hosting, with deep experience in logging/monitoring stacks, HA architectures, and automation that once reduced VM provisioning time by 75%. Comfortable bridging operations and development, he builds repeatable developer workflows (minikube/Skaffold) and contributes to internal Git workflows and code reviews. Notably, his early career in systems architecture and mechanical engineering gives him a systems-thinking edge for complex, cross-domain infrastructure problems.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BASc, Mechanical Engineering, BASc, Mechanical Engineering at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (19)
serverspec6
nginx6
android-app5
mattermost5
shell-extension5
bash4
desktop-application4
android-apps4
shell3
zsh3
ios3
electron3
react-native3
linux3
history3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mthornba/nixos
Aug 2022 - Jun 2026
NixOS Configs
Contributions:6 PRs, 109 pushes, 15 branches in 3 years 11 months
mthornba/safe-settings-chart
Mar 2023 - Apr 2023
Helm charts for GH safe-settings and GHAS Compliance
Contributions:17 PRs, 35 pushes, 14 branches in 23 days
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