Matthew Keeler
Principal Engineer at IBM
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Keeler is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient back-end systems and distributed services, currently splitting senior engineering leadership between HashiCorp and IBM from Raleigh, NC. He brings deep expertise in service orchestration and reliability—evidenced by substantive contributions to HashiCorp’s popular Serf project, where he fixed tricky test and validation bugs, refactored vendoring and linters, and added per-node reconnect features and metrics compatibility. His career spans security and networking-focused companies (Tenable, FireEye/nPulse) and government-affiliated engineering at Johns Hopkins APL, giving him a pragmatic blend of large-enterprise rigor and startup velocity. Known for quietly improving developer experience and long-lived infrastructure, he pairs hands-on coding with mentorship and architectural leadership.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
UMBC
Github Skills (4)
networking10
go10
testing9
configuration-management7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/serf
Apr 2018 - Oct 2020
Service orchestration and management tool.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 4 reviews, 12 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the Serf project by addressing specific bugs and making improvements to existing code. Their work included fixing test failures, such as those related to event size limits, and resolving validation issues. They also refactored code, like updating vendoring dependencies and making linter improvements. Furthermore, the user enhanced the project by adding features like an interface for per-node reconnect timeouts and compatibility with hashicorp/go-metrics.
golangmanagement-toolorchestration
hashicorp/raft-autopilot
Sep 2020 - Aug 2022
Raft Autopilot
Contributions:6 releases, 72 reviews, 17 commits in 1 year 11 months
autopilotraft
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