Summary
Matthew G is a Site Reliability Engineer V and engineering manager with 13 years at GoDaddy, focused on building observability solutions that turn telemetry into actionable business insight. He blends deep Linux and automation expertise (Puppet, SaltStack, Bash, Python, Ruby) with hands-on experience in web stacks (PHP, MySQL, HTML/CSS/JS) to maintain high-availability services at scale. As both a technical lead and former software development manager, he bridges day-to-day operations and long-term platform design, owning monitoring, Grafana/Mimir/Loki/Tempo observability, and configuration management. Based in Arizona, he has grown through roles from frontline support to senior SRE leadership, giving him a pragmatic product-oriented view of reliability. Notably, his background in justice studies paired with computer science hints at a methodical, policy-aware approach to system governance and incident response.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Justice Studies, Computer Science, BS, Justice Studies, Computer Science at Arizona State University