Matthaus Owens
Lead Software Engineer at New Relic, Inc.
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolMatthaus Owens is a Lead Software Engineer in Portland, Oregon with 14 years of experience building and operating packaging, release, and automation systems for large-scale infrastructure. He has deep expertise in DevOps and release engineering, having authored tooling and improved packaging across Puppet, PuppetDB, Hiera and related projects—work that includes adding systemd service management and cross-platform packaging for Debian, Red Hat and macOS. At New Relic he leads engineering efforts while maintaining a hands-on approach to build, dependency and deployment problems. Matthaus is comfortable across languages and roles, from backend Clojure work and Ruby DSLs (Vanagon) to test automation and CI improvements. He’s known for pragmatic automation that reduces build time and platform friction—an attribute honed while scaling Puppet’s release engineering and package infrastructure. Beyond engineering, his background in Spanish and creative writing hints at an uncommon blend of technical rigor and clear communication.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Portland State UniversitySpanish & Creative Writing, Literature, Computer Science, Spanish & Creative Writing, Literature, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignComputer Science, Computer Science at Portland Community College
Spanish
Github Skills (44)
dependency-management10
ruby-rails10
puppeteer10
puppet10
clojure-cli10
service-management10
configuration-management10
rspec10
rails10
ruby10
clojure10
tracks10
release-management10
automation10
build-automation10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
puppetlabs/hiera
Apr 2012 - Sep 2017
Lightweight Pluggable Hierarchical Database
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Packaging Specialist
DevOps Engineer & Packaging SpecialistContributions:117 commits, 3 PRs, 10 comments in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Matthaus primarily contributed to the packaging and build processes of the Hiera project. They added support for Mac and Debian packaging, including the necessary templates and configurations for package creation and management. Furthermore, they refactored existing packaging components, consolidated templates, and updated the build scripts to handle various dependencies, build configurations, and potential issues in the build pipeline. The user also made improvements and updates to the spec files for RedHat-based systems.
hierarchicalnested-objectsdatabasepluggabledistributed
exercism/clojure
Nov 2015 - Nov 2020
Exercism exercises in Clojure.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 143 commits, 111 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Matthaus contributed to the exercism/clojure repository by implementing and updating Clojure exercises. They added exercises for binary search, Pascal's Triangle, trinary, octal, all-your-base, bank account, perfect numbers, and flatten-array. These exercises included test cases and example implementations. Furthermore, they updated the luhn and bob exercises and added a test generator, indicating involvement in the project's development process.
exercism-exercisesexercism-trackclojurescriptlispexercism
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