Summary
Matthew Brahms is a platform engineering and SRE professional with 11 years building and operating cloud-native, CI/CD-driven infrastructures across AWS, GCP, and multi-cloud environments. He combines deep hands-on skills in Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Prometheus, and chaotic-resilience practices with practical experience running SOC1/2-compliant SaaS platforms and on-call reliability programs. His background spans startups and enterprise teams—from WP Engine and Under Armour to OpsLevel and H-E-B—where he focused on automation, monitoring, and developer experience. A trained musician with a Master of Music from Carnegie Mellon, he brings a disciplined, collaborative approach and an unusual blend of technical rigor and teaching experience to platform reliability and developer advocacy.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Associates Degree, Network and System Administration, Associates Degree, Network and System Administration at Columbus State Community College
Front-end Engineering, Front-end Engineering at Grow With Google Scholarship
Master of Music, Horn Performance, Master of Music, Horn Performance at Carnegie Mellon University
Bachelor's of Music, Horn Performance, Bachelor's of Music, Horn Performance at The Ohio State University
English, music, golang