Summary
Matthew Bruzek is a DevSecOps engineer with 12+ years of hands-on experience automating infrastructure, building containerized platforms, and operating HPC and cloud systems for NASA, Red Hat, Canonical and IBM. He combines deep systems-level programming (Python, Java, C/C++), configuration automation (Ansible, Jenkins) and container orchestration (LXD/LXC, Docker, Kubernetes) to deliver repeatable, secure environments at scale. Notable achievements include automating OS provisioning and security-compliant image creation for NASA HPC environments and authoring large-scale Ansible workflows to deploy 3,000-node OpenShift test clusters. A practiced instructor and conference presenter, he translates complex operational practices into teachable automation and tooling. Based in Greater Houston, he brings a practical open-source mindset and a knack for turning legacy processes into auditable, automated pipelines.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Security, Computer Security at SANS Institute
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Minnesota Duluth
Computer and Information Systems Security, Computer and Information Systems Security at Cyber Aces