Matthew Knox
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Cisco
Westminster, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Knox is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, DevOps tooling, and systems administration across companies like Splunk and Cisco. He blends deep operational know-how with software craftsmanship—implementing deployment improvements such as SSH key propagation checks and replacing shell workflows with Git libraries in popular CI/CD tooling. Known for flexibility across stacks, he’s led engineering teams and driven platform reliability while still contributing as an individual engineer on open-source projects. Based in Westminster, Colorado, he brings a practical, systems-first mindset that turns operational pain points into robust, automated solutions.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Northern Michigan University
Github Skills (4)
git10
cicd9
bash9
ssh8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
travis-ci/dpl
Feb 2016 - Nov 2016
Dpl (dee-pee-ell) is a deploy tool made for continuous deployment.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:27 commits, 4 PRs, 13 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the project by adding checks and implementing infrastructure related tasks. They added a check to wait for SSH key propagation within the deployment process for Deis. The user also modified the Deis provider code to use a Git library instead of shell commands and updated tests. Additionally, the user updated the Deis CLI install process to support v2 and enhanced debugging.
continuous-deployment
mattk42/covid-vaccine-finder
Feb 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:20885 pushes in 1 month
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