Matthew Ames
Site Reliability Engineer at Yelp
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatthew Ames is a Site Reliability Engineer based in London with 12 years of experience building and operating resilient, cloud-native distributed systems. He has driven monitoring and alerting migrations (Sensu to Prometheus/Alertmanager/Grafana), Kubernetes-based deployments, and infrastructure-as-code at scale using Terraform, Jsonnet, Puppet and AWS. Comfortable writing production services in Go and Python, he focuses on automation that reduces toil—examples include Terraform-integrated tooling and a personal DNS-over-HTTPS project explored during hack weeks. A seasoned mentor and senior interviewer, he blends hands-on implementation with onboarding and tooling improvements that accelerate team velocity. His background spans operators-to-SRE roles across media and cloud providers, giving him a pragmatic view of designing recoverable systems under real-world constraints.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Redhat Certified Systems Administrator, Redhat Certified Systems Administrator at Red HatBachelor of Science (BS), Multimedia Technology and Design, Bachelor of Science (BS), Multimedia Technology and Design at University of Kent
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Github Skills (145)
proton10
dashboard10
grafana10
infrastructure10
elasticsearch10
influxdb10
paas10
k8s10
act10
wine10
monitoring10
secrets10
vault10
data-visualization10
tooltips10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
SuperMatt/ilona.template
Feb 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:334 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
SuperMatt/Q2Maps
Aug 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:1 release, 109 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
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