Matthew Burket
Software Engineer at Red Hat
Iowa, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Burket is a software engineer with 15 years of experience specializing in security-focused system engineering and automation. Currently at Red Hat, he brings hands-on expertise in scripting and hardening RHEL systems, having contributed security automation content (Bash, Ansible) to the widely used ComplianceAsCode project. His background includes focused security roles at Businessolver and practical research and development experience from Iowa State University and internships at Bridgestone and DuPont Pioneer. Comfortable across system administration, secure configuration management, and software development, he blends operational rigor with developer-minded automation. Based in Iowa, he pairs enterprise security know-how with an academic grounding in computer software engineering, often surfacing subtle operational fixes in open-source security tooling.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Iowa State University
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Github Skills (16)
ansible10
rhel10
ansible-galaxy10
bash10
security-hardening10
cap10
security-automation10
openscap10
sca10
security-policy10
security10
audit9
auditing9
toto6
ruby6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ComplianceAsCode/content
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Security automation content in SCAP, Bash, Ansible, and other formats
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:1780 reviews, 1990 commits, 1626 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Matthew contributed to security automation content within the repository, focusing on implementing and updating security rules for RHEL systems. Their work involved creating and modifying bash scripts, particularly for hardening configurations and integrating security tools like AIDE and rsyslog. The user's commits demonstrate a proficiency in system administration, security hardening, and scripting to enforce security policies.
compliancecpescapsecurity-hardeningnessus
dnstats/dnstatsio
Nov 2019 - Mar 2021
A daily scan of the top 1 million web sites for DNS Security.
Contributions:569 commits, 2 PRs, 205 pushes in 1 year 4 months
scandnssecuritysitespython3
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