Matthew Briggs
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Seattle, Washington, Spain
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Top SchoolMatthew Briggs is a senior software engineer with 11+ years building robust backend and systems software in Rust, Go, C++ and Java, and a track record of shipping production-grade tooling at scale. He led design and implementation work on AWS's Bottlerocket OS—contributing to its secure update system and test infrastructure—and has experience across container-focused projects and DevOps engineering. At AWS he combined hands-on Rust development with mentoring and hiring responsibilities, and now focuses on agent and data-plane work at Datadog. Based in Madrid since 2026 with an EU Blue Card (able to relocate in 2027), he seeks remote-first roles and currently requires English-language work. A former music composition major who wrote performant multi-threaded C++ for an iPad music app, he brings both engineering rigor and a creative problem-solving perspective.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate in C++ Programming, Certificate in C++ Programming at University of WashingtonBachelor of Music, Composition, Bachelor of Music, Composition at Indiana University Bloomington
English
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Github Skills (19)
kubernetes10
container10
scripting10
script10
kubernetes-pods10
sh10
rust10
shell10
operating-system10
dockers9
cicd9
linux9
docker9
go8
logging6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
An operating system designed for hosting containers
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 1110 reviews, 185 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on modifying infrastructure and backend components. They made changes to a shell script for creating worker instances, updating dependencies for the `updog` updater, and making changes to the `containerd` logging configuration. The user also made some changes to code for kubernetes configuration. They also added a tool for aggregating logs called `logdog`.
containershostingoperating-systemrustlinux
webern/tough
Jan 2020 - Mar 2024
Rust libraries and tools for using and generating TUF repositories
Contributions:5 reviews, 14 PRs, 329 pushes in 4 years 2 months
repositoriesrusttufrust-librariesrust-lang
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