Matthew Jones
Distinguished Engineer at Ansible by Red Hat
Apex, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Jones is a Distinguished Engineer with 18 years of experience designing and shipping large-scale automation and backend systems, currently serving as Chief Architect of the Ansible Automation Platform at Red Hat. He combines hands-on development—significant contributions to flagship open-source projects like AWX, ansible-runner, and core Ansible—with strategic technical leadership across multi-year product evolutions. A seasoned systems and DevOps engineer, he excels at bridging product vision and implementation details, from database interactions and SCM integration to runtime environments and artifact management. Co‑founder of online-go.com, he also brings entrepreneurial product-building experience and a longtime commitment to open source. Based in Apex, NC, he pairs deep cross-platform programming roots (C/C++, Python, Java) with a pragmatic focus on shipping reliable automation at scale.
19 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at The University of Southern MississippiComputer Science, Computer Science at Mississippi State University
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Github Skills (32)
python10
django10
cicd10
automation10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
automations10
devops10
api-design9
scripting9
restful-api9
api-rest9
cloud-infrastructure9
rest-api9
shell9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible-runner
Jul 2017 - Nov 2022
A tool and python library that helps when interfacing with Ansible directly or as part of another system whether that be through a container image interface, as a standalone tool, or as a Python module that can be imported. The goal is to provide a stable and consistent interface abstraction to Ansible.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:43 reviews, 227 commits, 136 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Matthew made several commits focused on refactoring and enhancing the `ansible-runner` tool. They updated the display plugins for AWX and made changes to the main runner script, including the addition of command-line arguments and environment variable support. The user also implemented dependency tracking and implemented core features that support improved build, execution, and artifact management capabilities for the tool.
ansiblecontainer-imagepythonpython-modules
ansible/awx
Nov 2013 - Sep 2022
AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is one of the upstream projects for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 1974 commits, 190 PRs in 8 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Matthew's contributions focus on modifying and enhancing the Ansible Tower (AWX) codebase, specifically targeting backend and related features. This is evident from their commits, which fix flake8 warnings, implement job template history features, and address issues related to database interactions. The user also implemented features like storing the SCM revision and adding a custom environment variable for the proot runtime.
ansibleansible-automation-platformredhatrestrest-api
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