Matthew Bates
Director Of Cyber Security Security Architect at IBM
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Bates is a Principal Platform & Enablement Architect with 10+ years building secure, resilient infrastructure and leading cross-functional teams in heavily regulated federal environments. At IBM he defines enterprise platform strategies, balancing innovation with operational stability, and has deep hands-on experience with SIEM/SOAR, SRE practices, and NIST/CMMC compliance from prior Director-level roles. He has a strong track record of shepherding M&A security integration, running federal SOCs, and translating business requirements into auditable technical roadmaps. Matthew’s background spans on-prem petabyte-scale storage, cloud migrations, CI/CD automation, and configuration management, reflecting both systems-level depth and delivery-focused leadership. Based in Tucson, he combines pragmatic engineering with influence-driven governance—comfortable leading without direct authority—and mentors teams to improve resilience and reduce mean-time-to-recovery. A lifelong learner with roots in Biola’s computer science program, he brings a blend of enterprise security rigor and practical DevOps craftsmanship not obvious from titles alone.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science: Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science: Information Systems at Biola UniversityAdvanced Linux System Administration Advanced Linux System Administration, Advanced Linux System Administration Advanced Linux System Administration at IQ-SharePuppet Fundamentals Professional Training Puppet, Puppet Fundamentals Professional Training Puppet at Puppet LabsVirtualization & Cloud Essentials Cloud Computing, Virtualization & Cloud Essentials Cloud Computing at Global Knowledge
English, bash, perl, python, html, css, javascript, c++, ecmascript, puppet, c#, php, sql, kql
Github Skills (125)
saml10
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shell10
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kubernetes10
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java10
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
LinkMJB/ec2_snapshots
Aug 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:7 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 10 months
LinkMJB/dcos-jenkins-service
Mar 2017 - Sep 2019
Jenkins on DC/OS.
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
jenkinsjenkins-plugin
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