Matthew Hiles
Systems Software Engineer at Nimble Storage
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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SeniorMatthew Hiles is a systems software engineer with a decade of experience building enterprise storage, automation, and wellness tooling, currently authoring Go and maintaining legacy Perl for HPE Nimble Infosight. Grounded in deep Linux expertise from an early, indoor-leaning curiosity, he blends hands-on SDLC work with QA and support experience across NetApp, IBM, and Nimble. He contributes to notable open-source projects like prometheus/node_exporter, adding a Fibre Channel collector and improving end-to-end tests—demonstrating a focus on storage telemetry and reliable integrations. Pragmatic and averse to purely tier-1 support roles, he prefers interesting engineering problems that span systems, firmware-level testing, and automation.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
fiber10
linux10
go10
prometheus10
metric10
fibers10
automations8
automation8
testing8
procfs7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
prometheus/node_exporter
Jul 2020 - Feb 2021
Exporter for machine metrics
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 9 commits, 1 PR in 6 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on adding and updating a Fibre Channel collector to the `node_exporter` project. This involved implementing Go code to gather metrics related to Fibre Channel HBAs, including performance counters and status information. The user also updated end-to-end tests and made adjustments to metric naming conventions, which suggests a focus on both feature development and ensuring the collector's proper integration and testing.
exporterprometheus-exportersystem-metricshost-metricssystem-information
sparques/micro-quoter
Feb 2020 - Jul 2022
Plugin for micro editor to provide quote-selection support
Contributions:6 releases, 1 review, 11 commits in 2 years 4 months
editorselectionplugin
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