Matt Tucker
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Tucker is a Principal Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and developer tooling, currently focused on running and scaling thousands of Kubernetes clusters for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) at Microsoft. He combines deep SRE and platform engineering expertise with hands-on work in Go and Kubernetes, having contributed to projects like acs-engine (now aks-engine) to improve build processes and dependency hygiene. Prior roles span taking AKS from concept to production, developer tooling, incident response, and platform automation, reflecting a full-lifecycle ownership mindset. Based in Boulder, Colorado, he has a background in web platforms and Drupal earlier in his career, giving him a pragmatic appreciation for both developer experience and operational reliability. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic upgrades and deployment pipelines that keep large-scale services resilient and maintainable.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Mathematics, Computer Science Mathematics at University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Github Skills (9)
dependency-management10
kubernetes10
go10
build-automation10
kubernetes-pods10
cicd10
dockers9
helm9
docker9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/acs-engine
Oct 2017 - Sep 2018
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Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 2 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Matt focused on improving the build process and dependencies within the repository. They worked on stripping vendor directories, fixing import issues, and pinning dependencies, specifically with `go.uuid`. They updated Helm Tiller, and upgraded go-autorest, highlighting an emphasis on maintaining build integrity and keeping the project up to date with external dependencies. Their work included setting up Tiller max history configurations.
azure-aksazure-functionsaks-enginejoinazure
ultimateboy/ansible.osx
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:32 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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