Matt U
Database Reliability Engineer Tech Lead
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolMatt U is a Database Reliability Engineer Tech Lead based in Portland, Oregon, with 12 years of experience designing and operating large-scale database infrastructure. At Yelp he led MySQL reliability efforts—rolling out FusionIO, global environments, major OS and point-release upgrades, and migrations from Nagios/Graphite/Grafana to Sensu and SignalFx—while driving massive Puppet refactors and backup system replacements. He combines hands-on DBA chops from running 100+ servers and leading data teams with strategic platform work that makes “massive-scale infrastructure feel small and stable.” Known for pragmatic automation and observability-first designs, he also has early-career experience building web and localization tooling across diverse stacks. Matt’s background in electrical and computer engineering informs a systems-oriented approach to reliability and performance tuning.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.S Electrical and Computer Engineering; Computer Networking, B.S Electrical and Computer Engineering; Computer Networking at Oregon State University
English
Github Skills (23)
sensu10
kubernetes10
docker10
mysql10
yelp10
infrastructure10
paas10
clustering10
k8s10
java9
chronos9
golang9
vitess9
database9
database-cluster9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Yelp/puppet-xtrabackup
Nov 2015 - Feb 2019
Xtrabackup module for Puppet
Contributions:3 PRs, 12 pushes in 3 years 3 months
puppetxtrabackup
matt-ullmer/puppet-xtrabackup
Jan 2015 - Nov 2015
Xtrabackup module for Puppet
Contributions:13 pushes in 10 months
xtrabackuppuppet
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