Matthew Karnowski
Carlsbad, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Karnowski is a Principal-level network engineer and product leader with 15+ years architecting globally diverse data center infrastructure and a strong focus on automation and operational supportability. He has moved between hands-on engineering and product roles at Intuit, Avi Networks, VMware, and ngrok, shaping technical strategy, roadmaps, and hosting platform architectures. His expertise spans multi-vendor environments—routing/switching, firewalls, load balancers—and delivering compliant solutions across DoD, PCI, SOX, and HIPAA domains. Known for shrinking build times through automated provisioning and exposing load balancing as API services, he blends deep implementation experience with product-minded delivery. An active contributor to automation tooling (notably enhancements to Avi Vantage management scripts and observability integrations), he pairs practical DevOps contributions with senior cross-functional leadership. Based in Carlsbad, CA, he brings a curiosity-driven, solution-focused approach to solving complex infrastructure challenges.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Science (BS) at Kansas State University
Github Skills (7)
devops10
python10
scripting10
influxdb9
graphite9
docker8
dockers8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
avinetworks/devops
Oct 2017 - Jan 2023
Examples scripts for different environments to build and manage Avi Vantage
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 43 commits, 61 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Matthew's commits primarily focus on automating and improving the Avi Vantage management scripts. The contributions include the initial setup and updates to the script, bug fixes, and incorporating additional features like the influxdb support. The user has made enhancements to the Grafana dashboards for the script by fixing singlestat values. The user has also included vim editor and modified the send_value_graphite method to send value as a float data type instead of double data type.
pythonautomationavienvironmentsvantage
avinetworks/demo-in-a-box
Dec 2018 - Jan 2022
Avi Demo-in-a-Box
Contributions:61 commits, 25 PRs, 206 pushes in 3 years 1 month
avibox
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