Summary
Matthew Daffern is a Lead Cloud Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience designing and operating multi-tenant, cloud-native platforms across Azure and AWS. He architects Kubernetes-based hosting platforms, automates infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible and FluxCD, and writes custom controllers and observability pipelines to drive reliability and faster deployments. Matthew pairs platform-level thinking—RBAC, secrets management, automated patching and incident response—with a customer-facing mindset, having worked directly with senior stakeholders at global law firms. He mentors teams in GitOps, CI/CD and event-driven design, and has a track record of migrating legacy automation (Chef) to modern tooling and cutting MTTR through pragmatic automation. Based in the Charlotte area, he brings an unusual blend of operational rigor from IoT/OT systems background and cloud-native SRE practice.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Walden University