Matthew Barker
Retired Cloud Security And DevSecOps Expert at Sonatype
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Barker is a retired cloud security and DevSecOps expert with over two decades of hands-on experience delivering secure, high-performance applications across major cloud platforms and Kubernetes environments. He has served as a solutions architect and senior sales engineer for leading security and developer tooling firms (Twistlock, Palo Alto Networks, Sonatype), helping organizations embed security into rapid development lifecycles and scale containerized workloads. Equally comfortable in low-level system tuning and high-level architecture, he has led noSQL teams and authored technical solutions using Java, C++, Python, Bash and more to reduce risk and ensure compliance. Based in Santa Fe, Matthew combines deep product knowledge with practical consulting instincts—often focusing on efficient tooling and measurable outcomes rather than theoretical fixes. A longtime DevSecOps evangelist, he’s known for translating complex security requirements into pragmatic, deployable controls that accelerate development without sacrificing safety.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at The University of New MexicoBS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (2)
typescript7
prisma7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
matthewabq/knote-devsecops
Jan 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:12 PRs, 27 pushes, 18 branches in 4 years 11 months
matthewabq/jenkinsPipelineExample
Apr 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:58 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
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