Matthew Kohn
Vice President Of Cloud Engineering And Security at The Cloud Pod
Westfield, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Kohn is a strategic cloud engineering and security leader with 11 years of hands-on experience delivering multi-cloud, IaC-driven migrations and modernization programs for enterprise and big-data SaaS environments. As VP of Cloud Engineering and Security at Lakeside Software he balances technical ownership with cost, reliability, and security improvements across Engineering, DevOps, Infosec, and Compliance, while previously driving rapid growth and AWS-funded engagements as Director at Foghorn. He’s known for building high-performing teams, accelerating delivery pipelines, and architecting large-scale, cost-optimized systems (including event platforms handling millions of requests per minute and container orchestration on Spot instances). An AWS Ambassador and exam SME with repeated re:Invent hackathon wins, he combines deep cloud technical fluency with client-facing pre-sales and C-suite strategy experience. Outside of core roles he co-hosts a weekly cloud podcast and advises startups on governance and multi-account AWS strategies, reflecting a blend of practitioner-level execution and industry thought leadership.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Information Science and Business with concentration in Entrepreneurship, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Information Science and Business with concentration in Entrepreneurship, Computer Science at Northeastern University
Github Skills (39)
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azure-resource-manager10
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azure10
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terragrunt8
python8
ansible8
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infrastructure-as-code8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mkohn/mac-setup
Sep 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:3 pushes in 8 months
mkohn/cloudwatch-to-graphite
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:3 pushes in 14 days
cloudwatch-metricsaws-cloudwatch-metricscloudwatchpushinggraphite
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