Matt West
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Pinwheel
Port Saint Lucie, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt West is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience building and stabilizing large-scale infrastructure across startups and major platforms. Currently at Pinwheel after leading DevOps as Director at Drop, he brings deep expertise in backend control, monitoring, and mission-critical system performance tuning. His background includes roles at Pinterest, Zynga, LiveJournal and datacenter work in the US and EU, reflecting a blend of operational rigor and R&D curiosity. Known for troubleshooting obscure, at-scale failures and turning telemetry into actionable insights, he favors pragmatic automation and unconventional solutions. Based in Port Saint Lucie, Florida, he pairs a systems-administrator DNA with engineering leadership to make complex systems reliable and maintainable. Outside work he approaches engineering with a tinkerer’s mindset—building both virtual and physical projects and enjoying the bumps along the way.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, CS, BS, CS at ITT Technical InstituteBS, CS, BS, CS at University of South Florida
Github Skills (48)
php9
rightscale9
elasticsearch8
python8
ansible8
munin7
ssh7
automation6
devops6
perl6
puppet6
react-modal5
memcached5
monitoring4
npm-package4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mhwest13/Memcached-Munin-Plugin
Nov 2010 - Sep 2013
Contributions:16 commits in 2 years 10 months
muninmemcachedmunin-plugins
Nextdoor/puppet_rightscale
Mar 2015 - Dec 2021
Puppet libraries and modules for interacting with RightScale
Contributions:1 PR, 1 comment in 6 years 10 months
rightscalepuppet
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