Matthew Kunkel
Staff Software Engineer at Walmart
Bentonville, Arkansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Kunkel is a Staff Software Engineer with nine years of systems and platform experience at Walmart Labs, where he has advanced from programmer roles to leading large-scale DevOps and automation efforts. He specializes in Ansible, Puppet, Python, and Jenkins, and focuses on deploying open source technologies at enterprise scale while contributing upstream. Based in Bentonville, he blends deep retail domain knowledge with practical infrastructure engineering to drive reliability and repeatable delivery. An early-career path through hands-on store and intern roles gives him uncommon empathy for operational impact, and he holds a BS in Computer Information Science plus a private pilot certificate.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Private Pilot Certificate, Private Pilot Certificate at Summit Aviation LLCBachelor of Science, Computer Information Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Science at Missouri Southern State University
Github Skills (75)
python10
automation10
orchestration10
ara10
ssh10
ansible10
continuous-deployment10
kubernetes10
docker10
devops10
api9
infrastructure-as-code9
django-rest-framework9
html8
django8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mtkunkel/ansible
Jun 2017 - Nov 2018
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy. Avoid writing scripts or custom code to deploy and update your applications— automate in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems.
Contributions:5 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 5 months
pythonit-automationdevopsansibleplain-english
walmartlabs/concord-plugins
Oct 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:4 releases, 29 reviews, 16 commits in 3 years
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