Matthew Kasa
Senior Backend Engineer at GitLab Inc.
Reno, Nevada, United States
Summary
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SeniorMatthew Kasa is a Senior Backend Engineer based in Reno, Nevada with over a decade of professional experience and a technical track record stretching back to early open-source work with Gentoo Linux. At GitLab since 2019 he focuses on building and maintaining scalable backend services, drawing on prior platform and software engineering roles at Granicus and startups like Dibbs. He combines deep systems knowledge from consulting engagements (SonicWALL, Apprion) with long-term open-source familiarity, giving him a pragmatic approach to reliability, deployment, and developer experience. Known for shipping production-grade web applications and platform features, he bridges legacy system constraints and modern cloud-native practices. Outside of the day job his sustained involvement in open-source ecosystems suggests a strong commitment to tooling, reproducibility, and community-driven engineering.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (120)
python10
automation10
home-assistant10
mqtt10
home-automation10
graph10
iot10
privacy10
raspberry-pi10
hashicorp9
camera9
terraform9
terraform-provider9
asyncio9
internet-of-things9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Granicus/chef-application_procfile
Nov 2015 - Jul 2019
Chef application sub-resource that configures services in monit from an application's Procfile
Contributions:19 pushes, 6 tags in 3 years 8 months
dokkumonitprocfilechef
Granicus/travis-chef
Oct 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
travischefchef-automatedeployments
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