Matthew Hook
Senior Software Engineer at Umajin
New Zealand
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Top SchoolMatthew Hook is a Senior Software Engineer based in New Zealand with over a decade of professional experience and nearly 30 years of hands-on engineering craft. He specializes in backend and DevOps work for container and cloud platforms—contributing significant fixes and features to Portainer to improve Docker Hub integration, Kubernetes deployments and networking. Matthew has led reliable build and deployment improvements, DB migration redesigns, and penetration-fix work while keeping a pragmatic KISS-driven approach to design. He’s comfortable across low-level systems (fuse filesystems, netboot/cloud-init) through modern React UIs, and has repeatedly moved products from proof-of-concept to production in both startups and enterprise contexts. A committed collaborator and volunteer, he also applies his technical skills to community roles like modernising accounting workflows for a local not-for-profit.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Systems Engineering at Massey University
English
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Github Skills (25)
kubernetes10
docker10
api-design10
dockers10
lua10
go10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
ubuntu9
docker-compose9
linux9
windows9
helm9
socket9
networking8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
portainer/portainer
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:437 reviews, 145 commits, 632 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on fixing bugs and implementing new features related to the Portainer platform's integration with Docker Hub, networking, and Kubernetes. Contributions included resolving Docker Hub rate-limit issues, improving the parsing of content-type fields, and proxying Git requests. Furthermore, the user worked on features such as allowing users to deploy applications to a Kubernetes environment, specifically including improvements around setting up networking configurations such as Ingress. The user has also done work related to upgrading dependencies, code cleanup and the build process.
dockerkubernetesdocker-swarmuidocker-deployment
hookenz/gotailwind
May 2025 - Jun 2026
A go tool plugin for tailwindcss
Contributions:2 releases, 3 reviews, 5 PRs in 1 year 1 month
gotailwindcss
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